the premise of this movie be simple and hilarious . moore play an advertising executive who experience a minor nervous breakdown . unlike reginald perrin and who fake his suicide and moore character have a fall out with deceit . he begin compose advertisement that tell the truth . and this be where the comedy really take off . moore character be confine to an institution and but in the meantime his spoof advert be accidentally send to press . a thing turn out while the truth have more appeal than lie ( why do ad men and politician find that so hard to accept . ) . in the asylum and the plot enter it econd phase and a we be introduce to a bunch of people with all manner of comic and tragic condition . it be they who take up the thread of humour in this part . it be also here that thing go awry . a romantic sub plot be farcically attempt by the introduction of darly hannah a a love interest for moore . like him while she have also be commit for some reason . the story then struggle between these two digress strand and the whole plot be stretch too thin to cover them . dudley moore be 55 by the time he work this movie and and much too old to play a romantic lead with a 20 something inmate . their relationship begin to look uncomfortably like abuse . darly hannah have a wonderful face and figure and but not much else . her coy and vulnerable beauty be a role she would reprise to the letter in splash with tom hank . there be a happy end a you would expect while but by then and so many wheel have come off that you no longer take the joke seriously any more . it a pity john guilgud wasn not use instead of ms hannah . he could have be an insane politician turn philosophical mentor and or some such thing . the plot would have stay on track and the gag could have keep on come . the pairing have already be show to be a win formula in arthur . bob hope and bing crosby demonstrate that such a franchise could work in the long term with their road to . series . for the most part and this be well worth a watch . just be ready to make some coffee or get a beer or something when the maudlin and implausible romance take over . unless youre a fan of m hannah physical charm and that be . this be pretty well dudley moore last hollywood out . if he would be 20 year young i think he would have make the ideal candidate for splash . but the studio need a young vulnerable funny guy and and tom hank seem to have be moore natural successor . he wasn not a funny and but he wasn not so short and have youth on his side . he be also a yank . if you think this be good and then try bedazzle . you will see cuddly dudley both at his most endearing and and at the high point of his pair with peter cook .