DVD 115 mins IMDB 5.2

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Comedy

Armand Assante	Bugsy Siegel
Alec Baldwin	Charley Pearl
Kim Basinger	Vicki Anderson
Peter Dobson	Tony
Steve Hytner	George
Robert Loggia	Lew Horner
Paul Reiser	Phil
Jeremy Roberts	Gus
Elisabeth Shue	Adele Horner
Fisher Stevens	Sammy

Director	Jerry Rees
Producer	Donald Kreiss; David Permut
Writer	Neil Simon

"Hot gets you into trouble," cautions high-living 1940s-era playboy Alec Baldwin. He doesn't know the half of it. Days before his marriage to Hollywood studio heiress Elisabeth Shue, he falls madly in bed with shapely lounge singer Kim Basinger and ends up in an unlikely shotgun marriage. They divorce, they remarry, they divorce, they... you get the picture. Baldwin, all cool confidence in his sharp suits, and Basinger, who looks poured into her stylish, curve-hugging gowns, fell in love while shooting this 1991 film. Unfortunately their onscreen chemistry, apart from a couple of simmering bedroom scenes, is anything but combustible.

Neil Simon based his original screenplay on a real-life Hollywood story of l'amour fou, but even in his hands the ping-ponging romance feels contrived. Without that troublesome heat of uncontrollable passion, this amiable comic drama winds up lukewarm. --Sean Axmaker