![]() For example, the business between Adam and Ginger having to do with money as WWII rages on is misplaced farce - even if the audience assumes a generous disposition of credulity. If only there were better and more believable development of various interactions between the leads, it would make for compelling drama but we are treated instead to campy olio resolving itself into a strange conclusion, somewhat surreal. Character actors do indeed steal the show, even if some are given throw-away roles. Otherwise, there are some bright young moments here. Moving everything forward to events as late as 1940 is a forced element that simply fails. The years before the Great Depression - the Roaring 20's - were sui generis. That historical distortion may seem a slight defect to some viewers choosing to concentrate on a broader stage involving the upper class in its last throes of excess, but for me it destroys the underlying plot. A most notable characteristic of this film is that it rather zanily merges the 1920's with the 1930's.
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