Let me start by saying I'm a Jack Lemmon fan=atic and will watch anything he's in. That said, I was disappointed by this one. I found Lemmon and Mills to be entirely lacking in chemistry and I wondered why he hadn't just gone with Lynn Redgrave and instead of making her gain weight, rewrite the part so she just thinks of herself as fat. (As it was, Juliet Mills hardly came across as fat, despite having gained 25 pounds allegedly, for the film.) I didn't believe for a nanosecond that these two fell for each other, ever. The script is quite dated and as an older female, left me wincing at all the erased women in the film, including Jack's wife and mother. The plot meanders and sags.... a lot. I found myself looking at the time. The best part of the film was a 10 second joke Lemmon tells towards the end about going to a NY Eve party in NYC, having a WONDERFUL time, and then realizing the next day he had gone to the wrong address. If only the film had been more reflective of that level of Jack's unique gift of humor and had given him a better match of a mate.
