How can you waste fine performances by two of the best actors of our time? Put them in a choppy movie that makes little sense and even less fun. You can guess everything that happens within 5 minutes.
Shirley MacLaine is the kook. You know this - it's why she was cast. Chistopher Plummer is in a shell and she has to penetrate it to get him to return to life after the death of his wife. But he hated his wife. Doesn't matter - he has to be in a shell so she can crack it open with her kookiness.
All of the other actors are totally wasted in roles that have no depth and no chance of being anything more than vehicles to get the plot to the point where what the writers want to happen, happens. This screenplay has 'written by committee' all over it. And it makes no sense. It is poorly edited. The end is exactly how you imagined it will be and is not very imaginative. A total waste of time. Sad because both leads are so great.
Shirley MacLaine is the kook. You know this - it's why she was cast. Chistopher Plummer is in a shell and she has to penetrate it to get him to return to life after the death of his wife. But he hated his wife. Doesn't matter - he has to be in a shell so she can crack it open with her kookiness.
All of the other actors are totally wasted in roles that have no depth and no chance of being anything more than vehicles to get the plot to the point where what the writers want to happen, happens. This screenplay has 'written by committee' all over it. And it makes no sense. It is poorly edited. The end is exactly how you imagined it will be and is not very imaginative. A total waste of time. Sad because both leads are so great.