Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin are divorced for 10 years when they meet up again for their son's college graduation. Baldwin is since remarried to a pretty young thing, but all is not well in paradise. By chance, both are staying in the same hotel for the graduation ceremony and both end up alone for dinner the night before. A few drinks later and they find themselves rekindling old passions in the bedroom. What follows is a series of decisions and awkward encounters as the two (primarily Streep actually) try to figure out if the new romance is crazy. Baldwin just enjoys sex and food, clearly reverting back to patterns that a viewer could see doomed the marriage in the first place. Add to the mix new beau Steve Martin (who plays an excellent distinguished gentlemen by the way), and the new son-in-law getting a sneak peek at the ex's shenanigans and we get plenty of opportunity for keystone cop-like routines. This is all rather routine, with Martin being the strongest part of the film. What breaks the story for me is the sheer inability of Streep to resist her ex-husbands advances. One little look, or touch of the shoulder and ... cut to bedroom scene. She seems to have no ability to see her own way forward and has no self confidence, coming across as a whiny, woe-is-me personality. It made me cringe.
2 stars (out of 5)
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