Directed by Frank D. Gilroy
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Legend Films)
Shirley MacLaine lives a life of quiet desperation married to selfish intellectual Kenneth Mars. She listens to him constantly babble about his problems with a partner at work. She takes a midnight walk with his coworker but passes up on a chance for an affair. At a party, she meets an old lover, but again nothing happens. They decide to get away from it all and head off to their summer house in the country, but it has been broken into by vandals. An awkward sex scene follows, but it seems more like a rape scene. Shirley is bitten by a stray cat and worries about rabies the entire film. It's supposed to be symbolic of the diseased state of New York City. Shirley is good but her character never connects emotionally and the symbolism is weak.
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