New York independent movie - over earnest and over wordy but not without it's moments of truth mixed into the exploitation movie texture. Bogus high living background.
Commercials director Nicholas Pryor (later Tom Cruise's dad in Risky Business) leaves home, only seeing his child on weekend zoo visits. The wife says "That lovely child comes first " with him coming back "... and the neighbors second." He cheats on his intense mistress with an old love now in a sexless rich marriage. We get one striking nude scene and the mistress demanding whether his wife ever went in for any of their off screen activities also has a charge.
She gets the most telling scenes with him giving her a hard time for not taking his commercials seriously ("It's my life. It's my work") but he abandons his agency for the married woman who he knows will never join him in his single room.
Commercials director Nicholas Pryor (later Tom Cruise's dad in Risky Business) leaves home, only seeing his child on weekend zoo visits. The wife says "That lovely child comes first " with him coming back "... and the neighbors second." He cheats on his intense mistress with an old love now in a sexless rich marriage. We get one striking nude scene and the mistress demanding whether his wife ever went in for any of their off screen activities also has a charge.
She gets the most telling scenes with him giving her a hard time for not taking his commercials seriously ("It's my life. It's my work") but he abandons his agency for the married woman who he knows will never join him in his single room.
