Average romantic comedy, not really all that funny. A middle aged man leaves his wife for a much younger woman. Why he would want this floozy I couldn't figure out. She came on like a common streetwalker with an abundance of eye rolling, lip licking, and sleazy body language. The jilted wife is broken hearted at first, but decides to get revenge later with a series of ugly practical jokes. This was predictable fare, therefore I can't rate it too high but it was allright. I did like the line...."any other future ideas he may have in the future." Valerie Harper and Elliott Gould starred, and Julie Warner looked good all the way through.
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helpless_dancer1 September 1999
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Entrepreneur Elliott Gould feels old at turning 50: he's concerned about his blood pressure and eating habits, he's suffocating and suddenly feels unhappy in his long-time marriage to Valerie Harper, who put her life on hold to help build his career. She suspects another woman in the picture (there is, of course) and plots rather juvenile, 'feminist' revenge. TV-movie is meant to be the stuff of high comedy--jilted wife gets back at cheating husband--but this oft-used scenario has molded over. The upshot of the whole thing is that Harper "finds herself" post-divorce, but couldn't she have reached the same conclusions without trashing his car?