At a summer house in Vermont, neighbor Howard (Denholm Elliott) falls in love with Lane (Mia Farrow), who is in a relationship with Peter (Sam Waterston), who is falling for Stephanie (Dianne Wiest), who is married with children.
This film was Woody Allen's biggest financial failure, bringing in less than $500,000. It is also often compared with his earlier film, "Interiors". These two things, while seemingly unrelated, are probably very closely related.
As the plot above suggests, this is material just ready for a good comedy featuring a love triangle (or whatever shape this is). Instead, Allen made it completely serious and rather depressing, and it makes even his intellectual references (e.g. Kurasawa) fall rather flat, because these are not characters we are ready to open our hearts to.
This film was Woody Allen's biggest financial failure, bringing in less than $500,000. It is also often compared with his earlier film, "Interiors". These two things, while seemingly unrelated, are probably very closely related.
As the plot above suggests, this is material just ready for a good comedy featuring a love triangle (or whatever shape this is). Instead, Allen made it completely serious and rather depressing, and it makes even his intellectual references (e.g. Kurasawa) fall rather flat, because these are not characters we are ready to open our hearts to.