Explicit word pictures about penises, vaginas, masturbation and adultery are bandied about over dinner on a couple of occasions. Sexual joking and innuendoes are at times harsh. One character insists that his practice of participating in online sex is not cheating on his wife. A rash of unnecessarily harsh obscenities destroys whole sections of the film's dialogue. Jesus' name get abused more than a few times as well.
Wine is drunk on several occasions in social settings.
The Story of Us ends up playing as an unintentional prequel to ABC-TV's Once and Again . Reiner utilizes voice-overs, fantasy sequences and flashbacks to tell the story of a couple on the verge of divorce. Once and Again tells the story after they go through with it. Then just seconds before the credits roll there's a big payoff. It's too little and way too late.