Wanamaker plays a producer based on Roger Corman. Some of Bogdanovich's early films are parodied/altered, such as Targets, The Last Picture Show, Daisy Miller, and the big-budget motion picture that broke him, the musical At Long Last Love (depicted in the film as an adaptation of Gone With The Wind). Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers had written and produced Private Benjamin. The success of that movie enabled Shyer to direct this one. "I love the movie," said Ryan O'Neal. "So I did it for no salary, just points. It was made for under $6 million, so they didn't have the money to pay us. Still, I think it's some of my best work. Maybe I should work like that more often." Reception On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 57% based on 14 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10. On Metacritic the film has a score of 52% based on reviews from 9 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times did not like the title and did not think the film was very promising at first, "The plot drifts dangerously toward a series of stagy confrontations, but avoids the obvious: This movie has been written with so much wit and imagination that even obligatory scenes have a certain freshness and style." Ebert calls it "one of the funnier and more intelligent movies of 1984" and gives it 3 and a half stars out of 4. Accolades Golden Globe Awards Nominated - Best Actress - Comedy or Musical (Shelley Long) Nominated - Best Supporting Actress (Drew Barrymore) See also List of American films of 1984 References External links 1984 films American comedy-drama films 1984 comedy-drama films Films directed by Charles Shyer Films with screenplays by Charles Shyer Films set in California Films set in Indiana Films set in the 1970s Warner Bros. films Films about filmmaking American courtroom films 1984 directorial debut films Films with screenplays by Nancy Meyers Films about divorce 1984 comedy films 1984 drama films 1980s English-language films 1980s American films