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Jean Kerr's comic touch is slightly anesthetized this time out, but she has not lost it. She couldn't. That would be out of character for the author of Mary, Mary and the droll chronicler of suburban domesticity who regaled us with Please Don't Eat...
As if cast up by the tide, an urchin messenger, shod in jogging sneakers, knocks on Oliver's door. This is Carrie (Gilda Radner), a child bride of 22 going on eleven. She heartbrokenly announces that Nora is having an affair with her husband Peter. Peter (David Rasche), a...
In the inventiveness of despair, Carrie suggests that she and Oliver have a pretend-affair of their own to win their spouses back. The working of the ruse and the very clever denouement are as sacrosanct as the secrets of the confessional and the whodunit.
That does not preclude mention of one glowing scene. Recognizing that a pretend-affair requires some corroborative evidence, Carrie asks Oliver what she is to tell Peter about how it all began. The pair decides that a cozy lunch in one of Manhattan's Upper East Side French restaurants...
They occupy an imaginary booth. Oliver begins plying Carrie with sweet talk, and intimacy becomes ardor. Swept away by their playacting, they end the scene clinging and kissing. What is doubly enchanting about this moment is that Jean Kerr has shown us in miniature precisely how the dramatic imagination works...