A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in.
Acting
Cher and Palminteri's two-hander crackles with wounded humanity.
Writing
Palminteri's script finds poetry in a locked-room desperation comedy.
Director
Paul Mazursky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chazz Palminteri wrote the screenplay in 1983 but couldn't get it made until Mazursky championed it—thirteen years of rejection for this odd little chamber piece.
Flopped so hard ($2M box office) that it killed Palminteri's screenwriting career, yet became a cable curiosity—proving 90s audiences couldn't handle melancholy hitmen.
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