Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment. Unable to figure out how to turn the nonfiction book into a narrative movie, Mulholland enlists the services of Herb Dorman, a screenwriter of popular romantic films with a bad marriage, and volatile director Sid Spokane to help him create a movie.
Walter Matthau , Charles Grodin , Vincent Gardenia , Tyne Daly , Bill Macy , Gilda Radner , Earl Boen , Michael Lerner , Joe Mantell , William Prince
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
