Why?
At what point exactly does the audience stop relating to an extraordinarily attractive middle-aged divorcée (Diane Lane), whose love life is the only topic of conversation of her creepily invested family, who has been dating two handsome men (John Cusack and Dermot Mulroney), who is embarrassed that she’s been caught out by one and furious that she’s caught the other one sleeping around? Is it by the time we get to the scene where she’s yelling at her widower father (Christopher Plummer), who’s in a consenting polyamorous situation with three age-appropriate women (including Stockard Channing), that older men dating younger women is what’s really wrong with society?
The real crime isn’t that this all-star cast is wasted on a first-draft mess of a script they should have collectively wiped their asses with. It isn’t even that the protagonist is a mostly awful person with zero impulse control. No, it’s the hairstyles inflicted upon Diane Lane for each of her dates. Yeesh.
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