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Review
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Charming, serious look at modern relationships. Demi Moore
plays Debbie, who has a one-night stand with Danny (Lowe)
and then struggles to establish a relationship with him,
with usual ups and downs. Perkins and James Belushi are
cynical counterpoints and try to sabotage the relationship
for selfish reasons. This film is more poignant than it
deserves to be, because of Moore's sexy vulnerability and
Lowe's convincing ambivalence, and probably because it was
written by the formidable David Mamet (See Glengarry Glen
Ross). The film is striking because it was one of the first
to present a frankly modern view of relationships. This is
not the 50's or early 60's. People fall in lust with each
other and then move in, without necessarily knowing all
that much about their new partners. Both Danny and Debbie
are ultimately self-interested. It is plain that the
minute the relationship doesn't work for either of them, it
is over. Mamet makes it seem as if it is important they
give each other chance, without the interference of friends
or family, but it is not clear that there will be anything
to hold them together once the initial physical attraction
wears out. They are giving up the one-night-stands for one
extended night stand.
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