This pointless, forgettable and meandering comedy-drama was released by Twentieth Century Fox and, like The Graduate, it is based on a novel by Charles Webb. The Marriage of a Young Stockbrocker is the first of only 2 films directed by producer Lawrence Turman; his other directorial credit is 1983's Second Thoughts starring Lucie Arnaz and Craig Wasson, and it could hardly be worse than his debut film. The tone wavers uncomfortably and conveniently, the script meanders as it tries to figure out what it all means, the characters are unexplored, and it leads to an unconvincing "happy ending" with Richard Benjamin and Joanna Shimikus reconciling even though they are no more right for one another at the end than they were at the beginning. Pity Joanna Shimkus who fails even at being the poor man's Jackie Bissett. Better known as Mrs. Sidney Poitier, Shimkus' gives one of the flattest performance I've ever seen outside of the films of Andy Warhol, Russ Meyer, Herschel Gordon Lewis or Ed Wood. She lacks charm, presence, appeal, and personality as does Benjamin who's character is given a pointless, and unexplored quirk: voyeurism. He should have watched this film.
Review of The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
