See You In The Morning (1989)

After his first marriage breaks up, a Manhattan psychiatrist (Jeff Bridges) remarries a widow (Alice Krige) with two kids. But he can't quite break off his vulnerability toward his first wife (Farrah Fawcett) who has also remarried. Written and directed by Alan J. Pakula (KLUTE), this is a contrived and miscalculated romantic drama about second marriage. The characters don't speak like real people, they speak what sounds like a writer's lines. Tennessee Williams doesn't write realistic dialogue either but he's a poet whose language shimmers and soars. Pakula's dialogue is awkward ("the haunted moments of the night") rather than poetic. The whole enterprise just comes off as phony. The acting is good though the actors can't elevate the weak material. With Drew Barrymore, Frances Sternhagen (excellent), Theodore Bikel, Linda Lavin, Macaulay Culkin and Lukas Haas.