January 22 movie: How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life. The sleaziest of sleazy sex comedies, this starred Dean Martin, Eli Wallach, Stella Stevens and Anne Jackson. It was kind of like Pillow Talk, except much more ... well I was going to say misogynist, but the movie seems to hate men as much as it hates women. At first it was appalling and then it became hilarious because it was so awful. The fact that people thought this was funny, that's what's funny.
I'm being a little unfair -- the acting is good, the comedic timing is good, there are some genuinely funny moments. It's just that the humor is so, deeply fucked up. It makes you wonder how men and women ever managed to fall in love, if they disliked each other that much. If you thought How to Murder Your Wife, Boy's Night Out and A Guide for the Married Man were funny, well, first of all, I don't want to know you. Secondly, you should try to catch How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life. You'll love it.
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