this should have be a movie about sam and his wife and the glorious peter falk and equally glorious olympia dukakis . that would have be a movie worth see . instead it a paul reiser vehicle and with a little falk throw in . the wonderful elizabeth perkins be also in this movie and but you would hardly know it . i presume reiser be under the impression that he a giant movie star who need an appropriate vehicle . he not . even more galling be that reiser take the trouble to hire some of the best woman character actress on the screen today and then shove them all into his background . dukakis do not show up until the last 15 minute and but when she do and the screen glow . the story be about falk and dukakis really and but be subject to a pointless and silly and preposterous road trip in which reiser get to show how very cute and precious and oh so deep with psychological insight ( wrong . ) he can be . for instance and in a restaurant scene that i imagine reiser have hop be cassavetes like there a laughably false confrontation between reiser and falk that be so patently ridiculous and i be embarrass for falk .