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Bogdanovich must have been sure that this screen adaptation of Michael Frayn's hilarious, Tony Award-winning farce was going to fire up his directorial comeback. And by all rights it should have, but for some reason audiences stayed away from this superbly directed, well-acted and screamingly funny romp. Caine is the director of an incestuous touring company of an English drawing room farce. Following Frayn's script nearly to the letter, the action proceeds through three acts in which we see the play first at rehearsal, then a side-splitting view of a performance from backstage and finally a full performance in which all of the company's foibles and sexual trysts result in complete utter confusion.