Never Better The Indy Film Showcase makes out with older women. By Steve Walker Jeffrey Tambor and Jill Clayburgh have a gay old time. After Eric Schaeffer made the 1996 amiable date movie If Lucy Fell with a pre- Sex and the City Sarah Jessica Parker, it would have been forgivable had he continued in this vein.
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Schaeffer may have had the opportunity to repeat himself and, like the studly ball player of Damn Yankees , sell his soul to the devil in the process. The fact is that he completely ignores trends and demographics with his latest movie, Never Again , the May 3 Indy Film Showcase presented by the Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee. The parties' self-imposed exile certainly can have a dark and painful side to it. But Schaeffer's edgy, profane script and Tambor's and Clayburgh's willingness to be vulnerable, scared and ridiculous spins the movie in another direction. Never Again often recalls the more bizarre moments of 1996's Flirting With Disaster , another hip comedy that appealed to younger audiences while giving Mary Tyler Moore a bra-baring role.