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Antonia and Jane
Two old but opposite friends -- tony Toni and plain Jane -- see each other just once a year for dinner, but see the same therapist all year round. The presence of the latter allows the narrative to skip around freely and easily, and some of the girl-talk drolleries are engagingly off-balance. Many more of them (e.g., the man who requires Iris Murdoch to be read aloud to him in order to attain sexual arousal) are self-consciously and contrivedly so. A BBC TV production; with Imelda Staunton and Saskia Reeves; written by Marcy Kahan; directed by Beeban Kidron. 1991.
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MPAA Rating: R