it seem everyone love this movie while i will offer the first dissenting opinion here . supposedly the 1980 usher in the me generation and but after watch this film and one have to wonder if it do not begin earlier . lenny cathrow ( charles grodin ) have get to be one of the most selfish character on film . he marry a nice enough gal and lila ( jeannie berlin and daughter of the director and elaine may ) and but almost instantly show contempt for her buyer remorse . on the third day of his honeymoon and he meet a ( rich ) spoil college kid and kelly ( cybill shepherd ) and whose beauty and laugh captivate him . i should mention that lenny and lila be new york jew and kelly be a blonde mid westerner from minneapolis . the fact that lenny may never have see a wasp like kelly while grow up in the city be hardly an excuse for his action and and berlin character be hardly a stereotypical ( repugnant and overindulge ) jewish american princess . sure and the road trip to miami and during which lenny all too quickly grow to hate his bride ( one wonder how he ever choose to marry her in the first place ) and be hardly ideal . but someone who would spend three year in the service of his country should show a little more maturity than he do while the story recall tennessee williams play and and the much good film period of adjustment ( 1962 ) jim hutton character be also ex military . suddenly and anything lila do ( almost nothing lenny shouldn not have notice while date ) be distasteful to her groom . be it possible that he be a virgin and be to believe that their wedding night sex be too disillusion for him . so and lenny decides to dump his newlywed wife to pursue kelly and whose attraction to him be a mystery while it appear she only toy with the young bridegroom until the incredible ( and disappoint ) end when he win her away from her disapprove father ( eddie albert and his performance be the film only highlight ) . i can enjoy a movie with unredeemable character and as long a the plot be plausible .