Odd the Bryan Forbes greenlit this. It is a two hander with Peter Sellers as one of the two, and he was a big name at the time - but this isn't a comedy. Not really. It's got some funny moments but it's creepy and rapey.
Sellers blackmails Sinead Cusack into shacking up with him for a few days. He doesn't try to kiss or mandhandle her so it's supposed to be... alright? It's creepy and uncomfortable and at the end when Cusack gets with him permanently you feel sick.
Sellers is excellent. Maybe that's part of the problem - if the character was played by someone more pathetic maybe it wouldn't have been as offensive.
Though I doubt it.
Cusack is lovely and charming. It makes this even more depressing to watch. Urgh. It's also boring. A lot of features based on TV plays suffered from feeling as though they had too little story. This is the case here.
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