The film, written by Simon and directed by Glenn Jordan, stars Marsha Mason, Joan Hackett, James Coco, and Kristy McNichol.

Actress Georgia Hines is released from alcohol rehab and returns to her Manhattan apartment and her friends: Jimmy, a gay unemployed actor, and Toby, a sophisticated socialite.

When she confuses art with life during a scene and loses her composure, David consoles her and says that she is the only one who can do this part, kissing her on the cheek as he exits.

After he leaves, Georgia goes out to buy cigarettes at a neighborhood bar, but then sits down to start drinking and strikes up a flirty conversation with a stranger.

A furious Toby expresses that she has had it covering for Georgia, telling her to do everyone a favor and stop being such an “astronomical pain in the ass”.

"[1] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune also awarded it one star out of four and wrote, "The script by Neil Simon is as phony as can be, with only McNichol giving any credibility to her character.

"[2] Vincent Canby of The New York Times was positive, writing that "Mr. Simon's screenplay is also one of his best, and it's been treated with care by Glenn Jordan, a television director whose first theatrical film this is."

"[3] Variety praised a "bravura performance" from McNichol and added, "Glenn Jordan's economic direction is sensitively tuned to the border-treading emotions that populate the film, and manages to almost completely skirt the danger of hackneyed treatment this hardly virgin territory might easily have provoked.

"[4] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called the film "sleekly entertaining, well-produced (in part by Simon himself, a first for him) and a worthy successor to 'The Goodbye Girl' and 'Chapter Two.

'[5] David Ansen of Newsweek stated, "Functioning for the first time as his own film producer, Simon made a wise choice in TV director Glenn Jordan.

Jordan gives both the audience and his excellent cast room to breathe and neatly keeps things just off the brink of overbearing melodrama.

Since then, Amy Irving and Glenn Close have also achieved this same feat for their performances in Yentl (1983) and Hillbilly Elegy (2020), respectively, each in Supporting Actress.

[9] Originally released on Laserdisc, CED Videodisc, and both VHS and Betamax videocassettes, the film is now available on DVD through Amazon via Columbia/Sony's manufacture-on-demand (MOD) business.