This remake of a 1968 film of the same name, starring Sandy Dennis and Anthony Newley, produces laughs at the wrong moments. The comedic first half, which plays like a rejected pilot for a television sitcom, produces few chuckles. He's the best of the best, and he knows it. But when he explodes in a pompous pique in front of a major client, he's fired. Not to worry.
Time is money.
Everything in the movie's first half is ha-ha funny. His apartment has a dozen television sets stacked on each other like an electronics store. Hers has only one TV, but it's being used as a planter. And everything in the second part of the story is three hankie heartbreaking. Well, it's supposed to be tragically sad, but it isn't because there isn't a moment of genuine emotion in it.