He has to deal with the pregnant lover and her irate husband, and his publisher is breathing down his neck after having arrived in town with a transvestite who dumps him. Grady's quiet and safe world becomes a torture chamber with everything going wrong. Despite the funny moments, this is a movie that is ultimately empty and disappointing. There is implicit homosexuality, the remorseless adultery, and Grady's addiction to marijuana. At the end, Grady may have demonstrated a touch of conscience and concern for those who are in his life, but the general outlook of the movie has a jaded world view.
Nobody cares too much about anybody.
And despite the fact that this role is a stretch for Michael Douglas and he does reflect the malaise that can beset a life in academia, the movie borders on forgettable. The plot is well-constructed, the acting is good. But from the Christian perspective, the characters are pitiful, bleak, even adolescent and the immorality reprobate. Bible answers available at ChristianAnswers. A Christian could say that this is because of their sin.