the many and various comments about this film indicate that it mostly found an audience of Stockard Channing fans and 'understanding feminists'. Channing is excellent as the successful business woman who has made it to the top in a man's world but finds a 'little something' missing from that success. Kind of a worn out premise but well done nevertheless. A little more inscrutable is the Chiles character whose motives we will never know. Her deceitful bitterness is undiscoverable because of the her character's mystery. Was she really raped by our good looking but unpersonable simp or was that something she imagined from her 'nonfiction' writing? The movie went wrong by simply not developing who she was and just hints at an unexplained complexity. Worth watching for the performances but not worth thinking too much about because the screenwriter never really tries to go above mere generalizations.
Review of The Business of Strangers
