May Wine

Lorraine (Joanna Cassidy) and her 18-year-old daughter Cammie (Lara Flynn Boyle) appear to have good relationships with their men. In the opening 10 minutes, we get the feeling that Lorraine loves her husband, and Cammie, not only vociferously defends her boyfriend Chuck, but from the sounds of her off-camera love scene with same, we can deduce that she's either being boiled in oil or having a really good time. So it's a bit puzzling when mother and daughter head for Paris (business trip for mom), lose their luggage, and immediately, though separately, contact the same gynecologist (Guy Marchand) for birth control pills--and then begin separate affairs with the good doctor. Doctor Paul (Marchand) is no spring chicken, and one suspects that he's a bit of a letch, but it's hard to say since both women throw themselves at him like he's the last option for sexual intercourse on a planet that's about to self-destruct. The scheduling problems of these three international brats are the basis for the rest of the film. It's a toss-up as to whether director Carol Wiseman's moronic little ménage a trois errs more in the direction of boring or offending viewers. Not recommended. (R. Pitman)