Ad man Steve Brooks — a promiscuous misogynist and quintessential chauvinist — is invited to a deadly surprise party by three former lovers.

In the course of the film, Amanda also begins to understand how women live and resent the way men — including herself when Steve — perversely treat them.

Steve's best friend, Walter Stone, has been attracted to Amanda from their first meeting and, when despair sends her on a bender, he joins her.

Meanwhile, Steve's body has been found in the river and Margo plants her gun in Amanda's sofa, framing her for the crime.

When Amanda is found psychologically unfit for trial, she is committed to the mental hospital, where she learns she is pregnant with Walter's child.

She finds the decision difficult, especially after, five years later, she watches as Walter and their daughter bring flowers to her grave.

He saw unfulfilled potential: "If Edwards had somehow found a way to really grapple with the implications of his story - if he had pushed to see how far he could go - Switch might have been a truly revolutionary comedy, on the order of Tootsie but more sexually frank..."[5] The film was released on January 27, 1993 on VHS by HBO Home Video.

Although Switch was not a success at the box office, Ellen Barkin was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role, while Bruce Payne was described as a "delightfully wicked Satan" by Film Review.

[6] This film was indirectly referenced numerous times throughout the long-running series Mystery Science Theater 3000.

In the original television spots for the film, Jimmy Smits' name was announced in an unusual way: "Ellen Barkin.