Although Los Angeles doctor Zack is happily married to television executive Claire, he finds himself struggling with his increasing attraction to other men. Things start to get more and more complicated when a gay patient shows up.
Unfortunately, Hiller doesn't command the intensity of feeling that might have made it emotionally valid, and he doesn't have the awareness of the cultural forces at work in his film that might have made it intellectually respectable.
On its own baby-step terms, and despite its moneyed vanilla-himbo vision of gay masculinity and desire, Making Love plays now as a bemusing anachronism but not an insulting or self-inflating one.
