Bergman upgrades Darrell from a stalking psychotic into a zoned-out doofus. And he makes the congressman's political and sexual corruption seem like harmless fun. But there is nothing harmless about the man's world Erin Grant inhabits. If Andrew Bergman had acknowledged that fact, he would have made a better movie. Amen to that, my sister.
Male novelists can sometimes get it right.
But when guys adapt a female fictional hero for the screen, she invariably loses something in the translation. On The Issues.