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After 25 years of marriage, James (Bob Gunton) and Eleanor (Cathryn Damon) are in "a sort of run-down monogamy," poking about in the embers of their love. He is a restorer of modern art ("Not that wide a field, you know. More like a kitchen garden"), and she participates ardently in church-music concerts. By contrast, Kate (Roxanne Hart), a photographer, is just 25 and loin directed, an amoral minx spawned by the permissive society. She seduces James with a lingering kiss ("her tongue straight to the back of my mouth, circling like a snake inside...
...actors apparently got. Bob Gunton is a shade too stilted as James, hoping perhaps that physical constriction could simulate advanced middle age. Frank Langella moves with grand assurance across Broadway's Longacre stage, ranging from impish mischief to laceration of soul. As Eleanor and her alter ego, Damon and Kerr lend their roles compelling honesty, and Roxanne Hart is a five-alarm sexual conflagration...
...into your affections. This latest in Neil Simon's fantasies of generation-gap bridgework runs mainly on charm, not on the bile and bathos that fueled Only When I Laugh and I Ought to Be in Pictures. Jason Robards, the errant father, is as resourcefully genial as a Damon Runyon Santa Claus; Donald Sutherland keeps his dimples flexed playing a policeman who demonstrates his love of literature by misquoting the opening line of Joyce's Ulysses; even veteran Simonizers Marsha Mason and Director Herbert Ross find ways to relax into the material. What the movie lacks...
...They were good-looking too. Clear-eyed, strong, giving off a kind of energy, like athletes. It seemed to him that for them the whole thing had been a sort of game. And there they went, jogging away in step, knees high, heads up, shoulder to shoulder like some Damon and Pythias of the inner city. The householder remembered that stride himself. It had carried him across the playing fields of youth after he had been lucky enough to score a goal. For that matter, these two, with their fine jackets and high-stepping pace, looked as carefree...
...Quakers tallied twice late in the game with Damon Vigiano connecting on another penalty kick at 74.53 and substitute forward Chris Van Note twanging the twines with less than four minutes left in the match...