Amazon.com video review:
Until Boogie Nights, this film had stood for almost two
decades as the best performance Burt Reynolds had ever given. In a
criminal oversight, he was denied an Oscar nomination, perhaps because
it came in the middle of his action-movie winning streak. Directed by
Alan Pakula from a script by James L. Brooks, the film cast Reynolds as
a newly divorced man struggling to cope with single life in the city.
But a blind date (initially misconstrued by the woman as a mugging)
leads to renewed hope in romance when he and his new lady friend (Jill
Clayburgh) actually seem right for each other. But before he can make a
commitment, his flighty ex-wife (Candice Bergen) bounces back into his
life to make him miserable all over again with her flirtatious
indecisiveness. Wonderfully acted and observed; a highpoint is Bergen's
attempt (as the world's least talented singer-songwriter) to seduce
Reynolds with one of her off-key tunes. --Marshall Fine
