Michael Hoffman directs Sally Field, Kevin Kline and Elisabeth Shue in this farce comedy where a TV soap opera’s off-camera bed hopping and back stabbing is more turbulent than the zany plots of the show.

I remember renting this VHS from Variety Video as the cast in 1991 absolutely slapped. The movie wastes so much time and energy setting up an ending that felt like a letdown then and plays in awkward bad taste now. There’s so little to like here and you just wish Kline, Goldberg and Downey Jnr had better lines to deliver. The Almodóvar inspired opening credit sequence is the only time your goodwill is recompensed.

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Perfect Double Bill: I Love You To Death (1990)

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