I tried, I tried.

Rating: 2/10 (12 December 2019)

I tried to watch this, and it started out well enough. Two people getting divorced telling us in voice-overs what they like about the other. Okay. Then the film does its best to show us how "sensitive" these two are to each other in the midst of divorce, even when they hire lawyers to go at it. Okay. Then they try to resolve their differences at an all-party lawyer and client meeting, and it is clear to the husband that his lawyer (the always brilliant Alan Alda) isn't tough enough and he is going to have to spend untold thousands of dollars to fight his wife with a tougher lawyer because his wife is spending untold thousands of dollars to fight with him. (Neither has any money or property to speak of, so where all the money is coming from is baffling, but maybe this gets explained later.) So after this utter shambles of a meeting, the husband tells his wife that he is going to get his hair cut and she offers to cut his hair, and we jump to a "sensitive" hair-cutting scene to show...well, what a thoroughly nauseating wimp this guy is. It was at this point that I abandoned the whole thing as unwatchable. Whatever "real life" is like, it ain't like that. (Maybe this guy takes the scissors and stabs her with them, I don't know...and I certainly don't approve.). I'll likely give this another shot at some point down the road because I hear the drama picks when tough-guy Ray Liotta (like Alda, always brilliant) comes back on the scene. If so, I will keep you all posted.