| Director | Don Weis |
|---|---|
| Box office | $1.2 million |
Parker Ballantine is a theatrical critic, busily praising or disparaging the shows of Broadway. His wife Angela is feeling useless and restless, so she writes a play about her mother and sisters.
Angela does not believe Parker should review her work, since he will look prejudiced if he does so favorably and it will hurt her feelings if he knocks it. Parker has read it and is not impressed. A major producer, however, decides to back it.
Handsome Dion Kapakos directs the play and tries to strike up a romantic interest in the playwright. Angela continues to resist, but she's getting more fed up with Parker's negativity by the hour.
Before the play's first out-of-town tryout in Boston, the conflicted Parker goes to see his ex-wife, Ivy, who wants to break up his marriage, and gets roaring drunk. He decides to go to the opening, where the audience is laughing uproariously. He creates a scene, more than once almost falling over the edge of the balcony. He writes a scathing review and returns to the apartment, sober, to find Angie preparing to leave him. He apologizes for disrespecting her before and says that if she writes another play he will help her, if asked. They reconcile, and in the morning Angie finds a charming review of the night's proceedings pinned to his pillow.