director or screenwriter allan burn seem to have patch two different script together before come up with this minor out represent a comedy about infidelity and a melodrama about loss and sabotage . it result in a wincingly unfunny film . christine lahti play a crass and cynical tv news reporter who make friend with aerobics instructor mary tyler moore and be soon have dinner with moore and her family only to discover mary husband ( ted danson ) be lahti secret affair . burn have a strange and stop and start rhythm to his dialogue which be neither realistic nor effective ( just increasingly annoy and because nothing important ever seem to get say ) . rail thin moore and look alarmingly frail in her leotard and have a radiant smile but doesn not convince a danson wife and and danson get stick with a paltry and thankless role ( he just there to be a cad ) . the movie attempt to cover all the base in a classic case of overreach ( woman role in the workplace and the tv news biz and the cheat family man and the working wife and mother who want more and a woman need for female friendship and et al ) and but nothing substantial come out of these idea since burn only half heartedly examine the issue . a a writer and he be surprisingly free of punchlines and but be devoid of a purpose a well and and the heavy plotting just get all foul up . half from .