denholm elliott have the hots for mia farrow and who have the hots for sam waterston and who have the hots for dianne wiest . mia ex film star mother and her physicist husband descend on them and insult everyone and then go away again . all this be set in a house in new england during a storm and power cut . some critic see this a allen in bergman mode again but to me it claustrophobic country house atmosphere be more reminiscent of chekhov with one important exception represent chekhov have joke . this be tedious stuff . no wonder soon yi ( in wild man blue ) say that she walk out of it . fact and fiction get confuse in my mind when mia farrow character start talk about shoot her mother gangster lover when she be a teenager . this may be an allusion to the real life shooting of johnny stompanato by lana turner daughter . elaine strich and play the mother and be reminiscent of farrow real mother maureen osullivan in hannah and her sister .