An anti-Christmas card (ever notice that Santa is an anagram for Satan?) that takes off in ironic leaps and bounds from its snow-globe landscapes and its Bing Crosby holiday melody in the background. A starry-eyed housewife (Mia Farrow) must make a hasty exit out the window in her nightgown when her maudlin husband (Tony Goldwyn) confesses on Christmas Eve, just in the nick of time, that he has taken out a contract on her life: "It was a stupid solution. We should have talked it out." And she finds refuge for a while in the cozy cabin of a seemingly blissful married couple (Scott Glenn, Mary-Louise Parker), emphasis on seemingly. Events proceed from wacky to wackier, and correspondingly from funny to unfunnier, crossing irreversibly over the line with a TV game show called Your Mother or Your Wife. But after all, writer Craig Lucas (adapting his own stage play) and director Norman René, the tandem responsible for Longtime Companion and Prelude to a Kiss, want to say something quite serious about deluders and deludeds. Or something. The creaking framework is not such as to make you want to hear it. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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