director frank perry and who in the early 1970s show some honest talent and an abundance of visual wit and channel the same cartoony approach to life here a he do with his compromise position . and the affect be equally a meager . shelley long dy but come back and however there nothing relatably human about long approach to act . yes and she play a klutzy ditz with a heart of gold and but long have no shading and and when she try for sincerity it ring hollow ( even her overly clear speaking voice sound a if it come from an echo chamber and not a person ) . i like long in the underrated irreconcilable difference and where she really have a chance to carve out a character beyond her snippy cheer persona . it not that she a bad actress and there just doesn not seem to be a soul in that body . pert and perky and she utterly one dimensional and pink and blonde and bland . who care if she return from the dead . half from .