SPOILER ALERT! A miserable movie. Talk about aiming low & missing. Director Guy Green (yes, the same man who directed A PATCH OF BLUE) helmed this dog based on a Jacqueline Susann novel and has made a genuine piece of junk. It's not even campy fun. Kirk Douglas is a washed up movie producer who marries wealthy Alexis Smith so he can secure a future for daughter Deborah Raffin. Raffin is set up with playboy George Hamilton but falls in love with older, hell-raising novelist David Janssen. One is left wondering why these two dullards were her only options. Clearly bent on finding a new daddy figure, Raffin becomes comically enraptured by Janssen. That should give you an idea of how preposterous (and boring) this thing is. Brenda Vaccaro appears as a sex mad magazine editor and seems to be acting in some other movie (a comedy perhaps). Douglas barely registers and Raffin, though fetching, is not exactly star material. Smith embarrasses herself with a really outré lesbian scene with Melina Mercouri (NOT looking her best). Presumably Paramount Pictures had an eye on this dreck's box-office potential as it's impossible to fathom any other reason to have committed this to film. On the plus side...you CAN jump to the film's ending to see a montage of all that transpired.
Review of Once Is Not Enough
