Mac Davis grins his macho, good-natured way through this contrived, convoluted film. It's about a womanizing ne'er-do-well who ekes out a subsistence tracking down alimony-dodging spouses for a strident feminist divorce attorney, Tovah Feldshuh. It's hardly worth watching except for the beauteous Feldshuh and the amiable Davis, whose self-mocking performance is reminiscent of Burt Reynolds. There is one wonderful moment in which Davis puts on a gay act to disguise his identity from Feldshuh's cad of a husband, Ian McShane. And Jack Gilford cannily plays a junk store owner who hides a lucrative income as a bookie from his domineering wife, Rose Marie. Naturally, Davis discovers that Feldshuh is not really so hard-boiled a woman, and she herself turns out to be the vulnerable victim of a philandering husband. The people really left in the lurch here, though, are the ones who say "I do" when someone asks if they want to see this movie. (R)
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