Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment. Unable to figure out how to turn the nonfiction book into a narrative movie, Mulholland enlists the services of Herb Dorman, a screenwriter of popular romantic films with a bad marriage, and volatile director Sid Spokane to help him create a movie.

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Cast

Walter Matthau

Joe Mulholland

Charles Grodin

Herb Derman

Vincent Gardenia

Saul Gritz

Tyne Daly

Nancy Derman

Bill Macy

Sid Spokane

Gilda Radner

Livia Machado

Earl Boen

Marshall

Michael Lerner

Arnie

Joe Mantell

Larry

William Prince

Louis Martin

Nita Talbot

Dorothy

Sandy Ward

Doctor