A group of guys decide to form their own special therapy discussion group in which they candidly discuss their many problems relating to women. Things get out of hand when said guys eventually wind up going to a fancy bordello together.

Director Pete Medak and screenwriter Leonard Michaels start this film out as some kind of sincere examination on the macho male condition complete with trenchant insights on love, sex, and regret, but as the story unfolds this movie takes a surprising and refreshing departure into an altogether eccentric and weirdly comic realm highlighted by a crazy knife throwing contest and an absolutely hysterical impromptu mock wedding.

The top male ensemble cast have a field day with their juicy roles: Roy Scheider as sleazy horndog former baseball player Cavanaugh, Harvey Keitel as the mopey Solly Berliner, David Dukes as the uptight Phillip, Frank Langella as touchy and frazzled lawyer Harold Canterbury, Treat Williams as dashing doctor Terry, Richard Jordan as flaky drunken shrink Kramer, and Craig Wasson as the wimpy Paul. Moreover, there are sturdy contributions from Stockard Channing as Kramer's angry wife Nancy, Jennifer Jason Leigh as the brash Teensy, Ann Wedgeworth as kooky ventriloquist madam Jo, Marilyn Jones as the sweet Allison, Penny Baker as the foxy Lake, and Gwen Welles as sexy redhead. One of the strangest and most unjustly maligned movies from the mid-1980's.

Well, at least it's different. This was apparently one of those "art house" type of films, as I cannot imagine anyone thinking it would be a commercial success. I didn't find it terribly bad, but certainly not very good, either. Direction, acting, photography were all OK. The script was what it was, and I can't think of any way to do it differently. One note for the ladies: there do exist a lot of guys who are faithful to their wives. Who want to be, and are. These might not be the best-looking ones, though. You make your choices, and you take your chances. Interesting, the conception of what goes on in high-dollar whorehouses. Having never been to one (in any price range) I've always wondered.

This might be worth watching if you've nothing better to do (or watch)

A group of men in Berkley form a men's club. Former baseball star Cavanaugh (Roy Scheider) is a hound dog cheating on his wife Sarah. He brings his family-man friend Berkley professor Phillip (David Dukes) into the group. Kramer (Richard Jordan) is a psychotherapist. Solly Berliner (Harvey Keitel) is a real estate broker cheating on his wife. Harold Canterbury (Frank Langella) is a senior partner in his law firm and his wife left him after finding herself. Paul (Craig Wasson) is a manager at an auto parts company. Terry (Treat Williams) is a single doctor. Kramer's wife Nancy (Stockard Channing) comes home to find the group trashing the place. She kicks the men out and they decide to go to a high class gentlemen's club. The club is run by Jo with her puppet. She introduces Harold to Teensy (Jennifer Jason Leigh).

The first half of the movie is a touchy feely inner-self of the Neanderthal man. Many of the men are various shades of the cave man. Then they go to the brothel and things get even weirder. It's insane and not in a good way. Unless you're itching to see Langella in crazy makeup.