Chapter Two (1979 Robert Moore)

In recognisably smart-talking Neil Simon style, widowed James Caan meets divorcee Marsha Mason and the two become an item. He rushes them into marriage and then on an extremely unwise honeymoon at a place he's taken his dead wife to, he becomes all moody and rejectful, then behaves like a twat. Meanwhile his brother Joseph Bologna is having a brief affair with her best friend Valerie Harper.

So - what? It's too long, and feels a bit contrived - but I guess you can't have a film in which boy meets girl, they get on great, the end... can you?

Music by Marvin Hamlisch. Margaret Booth is the supervising editor. David Walsh shot it.

Moore directed Harper in Rhoda, and Murder By Death, The Cheap Detective.

In any event at least it was watchable, unlike How To Talk to Girls at Parties, which was just too weird...

P.S. Didn't realise it was based on Neil Simon's own life. He lost his first wife Joan too young in 1973 and married Marsha Mason within six months...