Bette Midler and Woody Allen star in director Paul Mazursky's comedy as a professional Los Angeles couple--Deborah (Midler) is the author of a best-selling self-help book about marriage and has been wed to successful lawyer Nick (Allen) for 16 years. They live a high-pressure professional life, complete with matching Saabs, two kids, a house in the hills, beepers, cell phones, and a constant barrage of client phone calls. To celebrate their anniversary, they decide to embark on a spending spree at the Beverly Centre mall. But while there, each makes a startling revelation that rocks their ma... rriage. Nick, following advice from his wife's book, kicks things off by announcing he's been having an affair. Deborah, staggered by the news, rebounds by requesting a divorce. The spoiled couple reconciles--until the author admits that she's been unfaithful herself. As Nick and Deborah wade their way through the mall, dodging a particularly annoying mime (clown Bill Irwin in a hilarious role), mariachi bands, and Christmas-carolling rappers, they are forced to realise the mistakes they've made along the way--all the while juggling the pros and cons of their marriage, dividing assets, and shooting off rapid rounds of compliments and insults. Midler and Allen make a terrific and suitably neurotic pair in Mazursky's hilarious satire of an outlandish Los Angles marriage.
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Scenes From a Mall
The notion of Woody Allen and Bette Midler playing a smugly successful couple whose marriage begins to crumble as they go shopping must have brought a big smile to the faces of the producers. Unfortunately, in Paul Mazursky, they saddled themselves with the wrong director for the project, who reduces the satirical potential to a torrent of words. Allen's lines, unsurprisingly the best, are not matched by the dialogue or performance of the too-loud Midler, and the added irony of a marriage teetering at Christmas is too corny. Despite the leaden weight of the script, there are some fine moments thanks to the die-hard personalities of the two leads.
A married couple celebrate their wedding anniversary by going to the local mall with a sports lawyer and a pop psychologist. The camera follows them as they shop, reminisce, confess and bicker, surrounded by the artefacts of modern consumerism. With a couple of once gifted comedians trading forced banter, the smug, referential title and an unreliable director, one is justified in expecting the worst. And yet there's a horrible fascination here that goes beyond Woody's ponytail. It's a compelling idea - people talking about the most private details of their lives in the most public of places.
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