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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Teddy Pierce (Gene Wilder) works in a San Francisco ad agency and finds himself on a ledge wondering what went wrong. Four weeks previous, he sees the woman in red Charlotte (Kelly LeBrock) doing the Seven Year Itch dance in the parking lot. He tries to make a date with her despite being happily married to Didi (Judith Ivey) with kids. Miscommunication leads to Ms. Milner (Gilda Radner) getting the call who assumes that she's going on the date. His womanizing friend Joey (Joseph Bologna) loses his wife who takes everything. He continues with plans for the affair anyways while the guys Buddy (Charles Grodin) and Mikey take Joey for a night out. He has second thoughts and stands up Ms. Milner while Charlotte doesn't even know who he is.There is no redeeming Teddy's antics but Gene Wilder gets a few good laughs in. I love Gilda Radner in this when she takes it out on Gene. The movie works best when Teddy gets put down. It doesn't work as much knowing he's lying to his wife. This movie should have more misadventures and hitting Teddy's nuts.

If I were teaching a film course, I would show this disaster to start a discussion of why a film could be so bad. The story: Everyman type married guy with buddies who graduated with honors from stereotype school, is obsessed with a model (Kelly LeBrock) who looks like her plastic surgeon got badly distracted while stuffing her lips with some kind of very hard substance. Amazingly, he gets to first base, but... The story has been done many times, and this version is without surprises.The model is meant to induce more than mere desire. The audience has to feel her preternatural appeal for this movie to work. Unfortunately, she acts-and looks-like a robot. That kills the movie plot right there! Any redeeming features? No. No one has any witty lines. Gilda Radner would be funny, but her actions are too mean spirited to generate laughs.

The fine line between comedy and tragedy is on display in this picture. This is a truly vile film. Comedy? Not even close. The message of this film is that everybody's a lying cheat and will never learn from their mistakes. A truly tragic pronouncement.Maybe the language barrier affected this adaptation of its French source material. The cultural insulation films receive by way of subtitles might have made this sad mess hysterical. Find a print in which the actors speak Mandarin with English subtitles and let me know whether it's zany, OK? Never knew an alleged comedy could be so depressing.

Gene Wilder directed and stars in this Americanized variation on the French farce "Pardon Mon Affaire", playing a married man who contemplates having a fling with sexy Kelly LeBrock. It sounds like a surefire set-up for a comic farce, but LeBrock isn't given much of a character to play (she's treated as a prop), and the other actors (Judith Ivey, Joseph Bologna, Charles Grodin) are just marking time with colorless roles as suburban deadheads. Gene Wilder has a few choice moments, but he's too fond of seeing himself be silly and he becomes a show-off. Thankfully there's Gilda Radner in a brief but very funny role as an office nobody/Plain Jane who thinks Wilder has a crush on her and then plots revenge; Radner, although helped along in her career by real-life husband Wilder, never got that great, hilarious movie-screen role after leaving "Saturday Night Live", which was a crime, but here she's used just right, and she performs without vanity or resorting to mugging. Wilder might have learned something from her. *1/2 from ****