Blake Edwards
Micki & Maude

THE REVIEW

"I don't want to divorce Micky, I just want to marry Maude" 

So, Rob is a second-rate television journalist (Dudley Moore) who has only one great desire, to have children. Micky (Ann Reinking) is his wife, a career woman who doesn't have time to plan for children. Maude (Amy Irving) is a cellist whom he falls in love with, and when she becomes pregnant, he decides to marry her; but Micky also tells him she's expecting a child...serious problems start for Rob.

"Micky & Maude" is one of the last comedies directed by Blake Edwards. Written by Jonathan Reynolds, it's a film that quietly immerses itself in a certain '80s yuppism, made of career and family plans quickly set aside by couples. A different society where the marital bond seems to no longer have its typical characteristics of solidity and unity that have made it one of the foundations of the modern world. Rob divides his life between two houses and two women, he's a fake but also tremendously charming and the viewer can't help but root for him. Polygamy seen in a different light, as a new-old element of modern American society; you have to go all out to achieve your goals, why should it be against the law to have more than one family to brighten your few free moments? An exaltation of loving relationships, free and without limits for a frantic society, but the ending will resolve Rob's problem perhaps in the only possible way.

A very light, delightful, and fast-paced film from the opening credits to the closing ones; a sophisticated Allen-style comedy mixed with a bit of slapstick humor that ultimately highlights its funnier and more surreal side.