In the Spirit (film)

Just before her death, she apparently expressed interest in a newspaper article about the mafia, then left her datebook at Reva’s place.

[3] Janet Maslin of The New York Times criticized the directing and editing of the film, writing "The camera is treated as if it were radioactive, never being allowed to linger where a performer might be heard clearly or shown off to good advantage".

[4] TV Guide reviewed the film positively and wrote, "For all its shortcomings, this raggedly amusing farce offers more laughs than most smoothly crafted Hollywood assembly line comedies.

"[5] The review added: "May's performance as the downwardly mobile executive's wife is one of the most outrageously funny exhibitions of comic acting in years.

"[5] Dave Kehr of the Chicago Tribune gave the film three stars and called it "occasionally incoherent, entirely unaccountable and often very funny".