Movie review - "Chapter 2" (1979) **

 One of Neil Simon's best plays - funny, honest, true - with Marsha Mason superb in a role inspired by her and played by her on Broadway. Joseph Bologna and Valerie Harper are fine as the BFF's - Harper looks really skinny. The film is let down by James Caan, who I normally really like. He can be funny but here he plays it low energy a man torn up with grief which I guess is legitimate but it drags the film down. Occasionally the dialogue sparks as it should and you get the vision of the film this should have been. Flabby direction.