Unfortunately the audience gets a Philips rather than a regular, so it doesn't work. Back in the 1970's, there was a TV movie called "Coffee, Tea or Me" starring Karen Valentine that had the same theme about a woman juggling husband on both coasts, and it was a disaster. This Is a step above that, simply because Dyan Cannon's charm makes you want to see how she deals with this unrealistic situation, and at times, she's a long, frizzy haired Carole Lombard. She also has two good leading Men with Barry Newman and Hart Bochner and great female co-stars with Melanie Mayron and Sylvia Sidney.
After a very 80's sounding title song over the credits (which is actually catchy), you get to meet successful New York fashion designer Cannon who has a great reputation not only for her job but for her personality as well. Obviously her personality gets her into trouble because she's always busy with clients and doesn't spend enough time with husband Newman. He decide to divorce her, and depressed over that, she married Bochner on the rebound, unaware that Newman has changed his mind.
Cannon is a bigamist now and then has to deal with the fact that both decide to make trips to the other coast to surprise her when she's out there. Lots of wacky situations occur, and the focus is on pratfalls rather than plot. Mayron is her assistant and best friend who likes to drink too much and has a crush on Newman, and Sidney is her fun-loving, full of life mother, a variation of what Elaine Stritch would play as Cannon's mother 15 years later in "Out to Sea".
I would have loved to have seen more of Sylvia Sidney as she commands every scene that she's in even if it's just a cameo. She does have some great lines for her limited footage though. The script is weak and sitcomish, and completely unrealistic, as often the comedy is really forced. But Cannon has such a contagious laugh that she becomes truly irresistible. This is a difficult film to dislike, but I've got to call em' like I see him, and in spite of how much fun it is overall, it's still not very good.
After a very 80's sounding title song over the credits (which is actually catchy), you get to meet successful New York fashion designer Cannon who has a great reputation not only for her job but for her personality as well. Obviously her personality gets her into trouble because she's always busy with clients and doesn't spend enough time with husband Newman. He decide to divorce her, and depressed over that, she married Bochner on the rebound, unaware that Newman has changed his mind.
Cannon is a bigamist now and then has to deal with the fact that both decide to make trips to the other coast to surprise her when she's out there. Lots of wacky situations occur, and the focus is on pratfalls rather than plot. Mayron is her assistant and best friend who likes to drink too much and has a crush on Newman, and Sidney is her fun-loving, full of life mother, a variation of what Elaine Stritch would play as Cannon's mother 15 years later in "Out to Sea".
I would have loved to have seen more of Sylvia Sidney as she commands every scene that she's in even if it's just a cameo. She does have some great lines for her limited footage though. The script is weak and sitcomish, and completely unrealistic, as often the comedy is really forced. But Cannon has such a contagious laugh that she becomes truly irresistible. This is a difficult film to dislike, but I've got to call em' like I see him, and in spite of how much fun it is overall, it's still not very good.
