Charlie, Kenny, Walter, Eddie and Arnold work at the same office. Arnold is getting married and the four of them get together after work for a celebration of that upcoming event. Each of them has his own problems: Charlie is overworked and has just learned that his wife is pregnant of his first child; Kenny is quietly resigned to his married life, though he misses the freedom of his youth; Eddie is a bachelor and a womanizer; Walter is older and has a serious health problem; Arnold is inexperienced with women and is not fully sure of his decision to get married.
Psychological drama with a passable script, but whose development is somewhat predictable after one is introduced to the main characters; the ending is weak, as is acknowledged by the author himself: "the third-act resolution is hardly an inevitable outgrowth of the preceding two acts", he correctly diagnoses. The direction is not without flaws either. At the party, Charlie delivers the following witticism: "You get invited to a party like this or do you get committed?" But there is nothing visible in that party that suggests wild behaviour! The director seems to be sleeping at the wheel because his job was to convey visually what that sentence implied, or else suppress it.
Rating: 43
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