Neil Simon has reworked his Gingerbread Lady for Hollywood, in roughly the same way that he may have reworked the original play between Boston, say, and Broadway. Time, maybe, to give it up as a bad job. It generates more warmth than most Simons, and gets no small boost in that department from the presences of Marsha Mason and Kristy McNichol. But warmth to Simon means merely that his nervous, chattery style of dialogue will be put into the service of a few rah-rah emotional speeches. The nervousness and chatteriness still ensure that you feel you are at a smart-set New York soirée where you have to stay constantly on your toes in order to take part in an experience that isn't quite worth the effort. With James Coco and Joan Hackett; directed by Glenn Jordan. (1981) — Duncan Shepherd
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