The life of Ed Okin, a young smart but miserable man, who suffers from having a bad luck in life, as he hates his career as an engineer, has been turned upside down, when he knows that his wife is cheating on him, the thing that challenges him.
Maybe what the movie needed was more professional discipline and less geniality. As a rule, it's probably better to throw the party after the filming is finished.
Pfeiffer in particular takes the sort of glamorous yet preposterous part that generally defeats even the best actress and somehow contrives to make it credible every inch of the way.
A little bit of Into the Night is funny, a lot of it is grotesque and all of it has the insidey manner of a movie made not for the rest of us but for moviemakers on the Bel Air circuit who watch each other's films in their own screening rooms.
