This is a very artful film. You begin thinking that Jim Belushi is the drunken brute, but it turns out that he's a better man than his wife, who's a wreck of a character. This is not a comedy, it's Woody's most straight film since Cassandra's Dream (which is why you then need A Rainy Day in New York as a follow up).
I'm not sure Jim Belushi's timing is quite there, but Kate gives an extraordinarily good performance, aided at times - according to her - by the director himself acting out the part for her! The ending, with Storaro's light leaping about like salmon, Kate with knife, and her final look - far out.
I mean, you could watch it just for the lighting. Vittorio Storaro turns 80 this year.
Woody embraced CGI for this.
By a funny coincidence, David Krumholtz (from Life With Mikey) is in it for about 60 seconds.
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