There's really nothing to like about the three main characters in this fortunately short TV movie that doesn't even reflect the era that is set in. These characters have no motivation other than selfish ones, and there's absolutely no chemistry between any of the actors. Joan Hackett and Cliff Gorman are an unhappily married couple who are having their 10 year college reunion and she runs into her old boyfriend James Brolin which brings out the jealousy in her husband. Slowly but surely, he goes more berserk, and eventually take things to the extremes.
There's no motivation to really root for any of these people as they are very self-centered and caught up in their own issues rather than the shape of the world or anything that really made the 1960's and 70's tick. This could be set in any era, as there have been a lot better movies made about angry husbands seeking revenge when a wife threatens to leave for a former lover. Hackett plays a character who certainly isn't worth fighting over, and Brolin is no prize even if Hackett's husband Gorman isn't either. The fault condition with the performers. It's with the script and the direction.
There's no motivation to really root for any of these people as they are very self-centered and caught up in their own issues rather than the shape of the world or anything that really made the 1960's and 70's tick. This could be set in any era, as there have been a lot better movies made about angry husbands seeking revenge when a wife threatens to leave for a former lover. Hackett plays a character who certainly isn't worth fighting over, and Brolin is no prize even if Hackett's husband Gorman isn't either. The fault condition with the performers. It's with the script and the direction.