Town & Country

Two marriages (Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton, Garry Shandling and Goldie Hawn) go on the rocks due to the husbands’ affairs. Michael Laughlin and Buck Henry’s script (nervously directed by Peter Chelson) is a hapless pastiche of ersatz Woody Allen, but these comedies of Manhattan manners must be harder to make than Allen makes them look. A thoroughbred cast—including Andie MacDowell, Jenna Elfman, Nastassja Kinski, Charlton Heston and Buck Henry himself—flounders frenetically with sweaty desperation. The story wanders all over the map—literally, from New York to Mississippi to Idaho—but never pulls itself together. The film has been banging around for years with rewrites and reshoots; the result is, despite a few amusing moments, a dream cast dashing around with nothing to do.