Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment. Unable to figure out how to turn the nonfiction book into a narrative movie, Mulholland enlists the services of Herb Dorman, a screenwriter of popular romantic films with a bad marriage, and volatile director Sid Spokane to help him create a movie.
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Walter Matthau as Joe Mulholland
Charles Grodin as Herb Derman
Vincent Gardenia as Saul Gritz
Tyne Daly as Nancy Derman
Bill Macy as Sid Spokane
Gilda Radner as Livia Machado
Earl Boen as Marshall
Michael Lerner as Arnie
Joe Mantell as Larry
William Prince as Louis Martin
Nita Talbot as Dorothy
Sandy Ward as Doctor
Judah Katz as Freddie
Peter Marc Jacobson as Robin
Sam Anderson as Ray Berg
Frances Bay as Betty Gritz
Luana Anders as Violette
Gene Dynarski as Board Member
David Tress as Board Member
Eugene Elman as Other Executive
Philip Sterling as Other Executive
Dick Yarmy as Other Executive
Stanley Lawrence as Man at Dedication
Leslie Bee as Secretary
Clair E. Leucart as Truck Driver
Victoria Bolker as Nurse
Steve Martin as Fabio Longio
Penny Marshall as Reva
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