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This movie was a hit with Hollyweird and the rich liberal movie industry but it fell flat with the public and I can see why. It's like when Reagan soundly defeated the other southern democratic peace liberal Jimmy Carter It showed that the public only likes real democrats not the liberal kind. Because FDR who was a real democrat had already been in for two terms when this movie was made the public had known full well what a genuine democratic president was and what he could do. This stupid movie was a product of rich jealous liberal movie industry moguls who didn't like FDR's socialist changes and thought they could brainwash the public with a piece of Hollywood fluff. It is good for a laugh though with over the top sentimentality and extravagant wardrobe and scenery.

This is a movie that should be in the Smithsonian. It's a profound reflection of a time period that produced some of the best American music ever. I was very surprised to read at the end of the film that Hank Williams was only 29 when he died and that he had written over 700 songs many of them classic. I was born in '48 so he was not of my generation but after the 60's rock and roll died I came to appreciate the greats of the past like Hank and Bill Monroe. I think Sneezy Waters did an incredible job of acting. The writing was right on target for humor and the soulful journey that Williams must have experienced. He seems to be searching for a peace that eludes him. I didn't know he had written "I saw the light", which he sings here.

I saw the original when it came out and couldn't stand it. This was when it was the in thing to be a house husband and dick-less. It was the east coast N.O.W. culture in the movies. Supposedly it was a horror movie with the obviously politically correct nod toward woman's lib. There was no horror it was just long and boring. This one is much better and probably too short. Their's some good dialogue and humor that makes the settings less picture perfect. The settings are pleasing to the eye much as the housewives but the husbands are software executives and would like their woman more compatible, like their computers. So they decide to combine the two. I think Matthew Broderick is a good choice to play Nicole Kidman's husband. He's very likable and not as pushy until the other husbands work him over. Kidman plays a successful television executive who loses her job after a reality show she made backfires. This is an entertaining comedy and doesn't try to be anything more.