| RATING: | 60% |
| TECHNICAL QUALITY: | DVD |
Pleasing and amusing romantic comedy that only addresses its theme obliquely. The story of a man so caught up in his work that he has effectively forgotten not only to love his wife but that love is an ongoing process - never a fully-achieved state. Taking your wife for granted can be fatal and yet is so easy to do given the plethora of other concerns that can so easily distract us from what is really most important.
The problem here is that the actors are somewhat cast against type; undermining the spiritual aspect of the story and replacing it with the merely emotional. Unlike the far better It's a Wonderful Life, there is not enough humor for the usually-comic performers to get their teeth into, so the characters remain a little flat.
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