A screwball buddy comedy about a pair of Dizzy and Daffy apartment-mates (Helen Slater and Melanie Mayron, respectively), whose dope supplier entrusts them ("for a few days") with a bag containing $900,000 in cash, and whose rent is two months overdue. That's how it all begins. The plotting, at that point and after, is facile even for a farce, and the two women, though seldom unappealing, are seldom really funny either. (Sometimes they simply appeal too hard: they implore.) The Gods of Comedy, pitiless as the gods of anything are prone to be, would demand some sacrifice of appealingness in return for funniness -- as in that yardstick of female buddy comedies, Desperately Seeking Susan. Certainly the two women are not free from all censure -- especially with regard to the therapeutic but addictive aspects of consumerism ("Every day I tell myself: today I'm not going to go shopping") and to those moments of disagreement and disagreeableness that enter into even the best of roommate relationships ("The blue sponge is for dishes. The yellow sponge is for surfaces"). But censure is at its most unsparing when it applies to members of the opposite sex. And Christopher Guest, it so happens, comes off the most consistently funny in the entire cast, as a gently euphemistic and considerately circumlocutory two-timer. There is a lesson there. With Carol Kane and Eileen Brennan; written by Mayron and Catlin Adams; directed by Adams. (1988) — Duncan Shepherd
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