one of those high budget and yet relentlessly schlocky movie star vehicle which both pander and condescend to a mass audience while the pedigree talent involve may well warrant a viewing and yet the film be so pompous it make viewer feel like chump for watch . harrison ford play a slimy and self absorb lawyer whose life take a drastic turn after he walk into a liquor store be rob . annette bening play ford spouse who help her husband through a difficult period and and have a rebirth of her own . this be precisely the type of material director mike nichols would have thumb his nose at twenty year ago while work here rather joylessly and nichols wrap all the phony uplift in cinematic saran wrap . the self deceit ( and smugness ) hanging over the film be like a gray pallor . half from .