Tom Makiewicz directs John Candy, Mariel Hemingway and Emma Samms in this comedy vehicle where a TV soap writer finds himself living in his fictional world, his typewriter giving him godlike powers and both female leads distracting him from getting back to reality. 

There are some light knowing asides to soap opera inanity lingering at the sidelines but this is essentially a project so caught up in running through its concept it seemingly forgets to put any laughs in. Not even one nice piece of John Candy comedy business just plot, plot, plot, plot, plot.

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