Dudley Moore

A bitter ad executive who has reached his breaking point lands in a mental institution, where his career actually begins to thrive with help from his fellow patients. Emory works in advertising and is beginning to crack up. His latest idea is honesty, e.g. "Volvos: Yes they are boxy, but they're safe". This doesn't go down too well with the boss, so Emory is sent to a psychiatric hospital to "recover." Meanwhile, back at the office, Emory's work is accidentally sent to the printers. His ads are a huge success. But now Emory has fallen for another patient, Kathy, so he doesn't want to leave. —Rob Hartill

The story opens with a man staggering through the desert with a large laceration on his leg. He comes to the home of a Native American family who take him in. They have him drink a clear liquid and stare into the eyes of one of the men. Suddenly, both men realize their minds have been swapped. One of them tends to the injured man's leg and the man feels nothing due to the mind transference. He leaves with some of the potion they gave him once their minds have been switched back. Chris Hammond is a high school student who runs relay for his track team and has aspirations to date a beautiful student, Laurie. Laurie's hulking boyfriend, Rick, is a belligerent and bullying guy who also runs relay for the track team but constantly comes down on Chris, especially when their coach gives Chris the anchor spot at their next meet. Laurie barely pays any attention to Chris to being with, but suddenly accepts a date proposal when Chris tells her he has tickets to a rock concert that weekend. Chris' father is Jack Hammond, a brilliant and successful surgeon who is vying for a chief of staff position at his hospital. He is the leading candidate for the search but also has to fend off the advances of his boss' wife, Ginnie, who flirts constantly with Jack. Jack also remains stern when one of his colleagues, Dr Amy Larkin, pleads with him to accept an ER patient with chest pains who doesn't have any medical insurance. At a staff meeting, Dr Larkin brings up the issue of uninsured patients, but finds she can't count on Jack or any of the other staff to support her. Jack expects that Chris will follow him into surgery but Chris isn't very interested. When Chris gives an oral presentation to his biology class, it's a near-disaster with Chris trying to speak in medicalese and failing. He receives a C grade which he knows will disappoint his dad. Chris' friend, Lawrence, AKA "Trigger", tells Chris about his visiting uncle, Earl -- the same man from the opening scene who had his mind switched. Trigger tells Chris he overheard Earl telling his parents about the potion. Chris thinks Trigger is making the story up, however Trigger shows up at Chris' house with a small amount of the potion in a Tabasco bottle. They test it out on Chris' dog and cat and it's successful. The two are astounded, and careless when they leave the bottle behind and the Hammond's maid finds it and puts it in the cupboard next to the real bottle of Tabasco. Jack returns home that night and almost immediately asks Chris about his biology presentation. As Jack prepares himself a Bloody Mary, he grabs the Tabasco bottle containing Trigger's potion and puts a few drops in his drink. When he hears that Chris got a C, he turns around to reprimand him about it and their minds switch. Their suspicions are confirmed when they see the cat and dog both acting like each other. Jack becomes depressed and spends the evening at home. Chris, now able to use his father's ID to drink, takes Trigger out for an evening at a nightclub. While there, Chris meets Ginnie, who is quite surprised to see "Jack" at a nightclub. She tells him she'll contact him later, Chris not knowing who she actually is. Chris returns home in the early hours of the morning, hungover. Jack is furious. Jack calls in sick to the hospital -- an usual occurrence -- and tells Chris he's going to take Chris' place at school over Chris' loud objection. Chris stays home and takes advantage of having the house all to himself. His boss, Dr Armbruster, knowing that Jack never calls in ill, decides to stop by the Hammond's house and finds Jack well. Chris agrees to report to the hospital where he goes on rounds, letting his interns handle patient reports and medications. They later go out with Chris/Jack and now appear to have a better rapport with the usually stoic Jack. Jack/Chris is later furious with his son when he finds out he went on rounds and loosened-up his hard-nosed relationship with his students. Meanwhile, at school, Jack impresses Chris' teachers with his vast knowledge of Chris' lessons, eventually becoming an annoyance to Chris' teachers and fellow students. He also rats out a classmate who plays a prank on a teacher. Chris is quickly ostracized by his father's actions despite Jack's belief that he can help Chris excel academically and be admitted to a top pre-med college. Chris' big track meet is later that day and Jack, despite having no experience at running, participates as the relay team anchor. He blows the crucial final lap, dropping the baton and diving for the finish line but coming up far short. When he leaves after the meet, Rick confronts him but Jack ignores him and runs over his foot. That night, he takes Laurie out to the concert as promised but makes her leave early when the music played by the heavy metal band bothers him too much. Laurie is very annoyed and storms into her house. Suddenly, Rick grabs Jack/Chris and beats him severely. At home, Chris/Jack gets a surprise visit from Ginnie. Knowing he stands a good chance at having sex with her, he invites her in but since he's not as sophisticated or charming as his father, he blows the date, even setting a love seat on fire. Ginnie storms out leaving Chris to be confronted by his father when he gets home. The two of them argue: Jack/Chris is upset that he was beaten up and still has to go to the interview for Chris the next day with the admissions rep from the pre-med college. Chris/Jack wants his father to leave him alone to choose his own life goals. Suddenly, Trigger shows up saying he'd gotten in contact with Earl and they need to go with his uncle to Death Valley to find the antidote to the transference serum. After searching for a key ingredient, Earl cooks up the antidote and Chris and Jack stare at each other, seemingly with no effect. Earl suggests that it will take some time to work. On their way back they stop off at a gas station and find a woman ready to deliver a baby. Jack/Chris takes control and has the husband, Trigger and Earl all help out. Chris/Jack passes out at the sight of the baby being born. After they return home, Jack/Chris goes to Chris' interview but it's cut short when the antidote takes effect. Chris/Jack is in a private meeting with Dr Armbruster who confronts Jack about playing around with his wife. Jack is overjoyed that he's returned to his own body. Chris is about to race out of the school to find his father when he's met by Rick. Rick challenges Chris to a fairer fight, even volunteering to keep both hands behind his back. Chris knocks him out cold and hurries off to find his dad. He bursts into the staff meeting where they'll decide who the new chief of staff is and tries to convince Jack's colleagues that he's blameless for the incident with Ginnie. However, Jack comes in and assures Chris that he doesn't want the position after all and turns the board down flat. Jack and Chris walk off with a new understanding of their relationship. As they leave, Trigger sees Rick lying on a gurney following his being knocked out by Chris. With some of the serum still left, Trigger sneaks up on Rick and pours it into his mouth. Trying to spit it out, Rick locks eyes with the passing Armbruster. Their minds swap places and Rick/Armbruster asks Rick if he has insurance. Armbruster/Rick replies harshly. The two realize what's happened and scream, which is heard by Jack and Chris as they walk away.

A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years later. Wylie is a lazy engineer. Landry is a Sergeant specialising in Armour. They have never met but their lives become entangled when Landry must take the tank Wylie designed into combat. Wylie is waiting for his employer to go out of business when he meets another engineer who gives him a disk with the plans for a system that will save his employer. The other engineer is dead moments later leaving Wylie with the disk and credit for the design. Suddenly Wylie is no longer a hack, but the saviour of his company and finds his life is no longer the same. —John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net> In 1982 Wylie is working for a company located in a former bowling alley which is about to go under. In 1984 Lt. Landry is demonstrating a tank in Kuwait that causes chaos. This is confusing, but the events are related. Wiley meets a man in a bar who is designing technology for a tank and is about to meet with KGB spy Jeff. Fearing what may happen (and he is right), he sneaks his design into Wylie's briefcase. Wylie finds the technology, and given that he will save his company by doing so, he reluctantly goes along with a co-worker's scheme to pass the work off as his own. The technology doesn't work perfectly but it can be improved. Wylie secretly asks a co-worker to investigate the plan further and discovers even worse problems. During all this Wylie also cheats on his wife with boss Clair and runs for his life from Jeff and other goons. Landry has troubles of his own. With plenty of silliness from the natives. In the end, one has to wonder if Wylie can fix the problems before Landry gets blown up by a tank that has already performed poorly. —This is essentially the plot summary from my user review.

Dudley Moore and director Blake Edwards are reunited in this laugh-packed romp about a lovable bigamist. TV reporter Rob Salinger (Moore) longs for a baby. But his career-minded wife, Micki (Ann Reinking), is too busy for motherhood. A romantic fling with a seductive cellist, Maude (Amy Irving), leads to her pregnancy. Rob receives another shock when Micki announces that she's also expecting! In love with both women, he marries Maude and starts leading a double life full of complicated and riotous situations. MICKI & MAUDE reaches the heights of hilarity when both women are delivering babies in adjoining rooms while Moore serves double duty as the frantic father-to-be!

A successful playwright employs a new female writing partner, and it's love on first sight, but it happens to be the day he gets married. They both suppress their feelings for each other in order to form a successful writing partnership.

During a surprise 42nd birthday party for George Webber, a well-known composer of popular music, he finds himself coping badly with incipient middle age. When he catches a glimpse of a mysterious woman en route to her wedding, he is instantly obsessed by her beauty, and - despite the presence of his lover Samantha Taylor - follows the woman to the church where he crashes into a police cruiser and is stung by a bee. George visits the priest, and learns that the woman is Jenny Miles, daughter of a prominent Beverly Hills dentist. Later that night, Sam and George have an argument about George's failure to give her the attention she needs, his use of the term "broad", and the fact that he and his neighbor (a wealthy porn producer) watch each other perform carnal acts using telescopes. The final straw for Sam occurs when George makes a remark subtly impugning her femininity at which point Sam leaves in a huff. The following day, George and Sam suffer a series of mishaps that prevent them from reconciling, including George spying on his neighbor until hitting himself with his telescope and falling down an embankment, causing him to miss Sam's phone call. In addition, George schedules a dental appointment with Jenny's father, and while in the dentist's chair, subtly leads the dentist into disclosing that his daughter and her husband went to Mexico for their honeymoon. The examination also reveals a mouthful of cavities, requiring the dentist to spend the entire afternoon inserting fillings in George's teeth. The after effects of the novocaine, which are aggravated by his heavy drinking immediately after, leave him completely incoherent and when Sam finally reaches him on the phone she mistakes him for a madman and calls the police. The police storm his house, but recognizing him they leave amicably. He visits his neighbor's house to take part in an orgy just as Sam arrives at his house, and she spots him through his telescope, widening the rift between them. Later, George impulsively follows the newlyweds to their exclusive hotel in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico. In the bar, George encounters an old acquaintance, Mary Lewis, who suffers from a lack of self-confidence because she blames herself for a series of failed relationships. When they attempt a fling that night, she interprets George's inadequacy in bed as confirmation of her insecurities despite her better-than-average looks and easygoing disposition. One hot day at the beach, George sees Jenny - suntanned and dressed in a one-piece swimsuit and her hair braided in cornrows - which furthers George's obsession. He notices that David, Jenny's husband, has fallen asleep on his surfboard. Pretending to inquire about renting a surfboard, George learns that beyond a certain point are powerful currents that can sweep a swimmer or surfer dangerously far from land. George rents a catamaran, clumsily but successfully rescues David, and becomes a hero. Both Sam and his songwriting partner see him on TV Network News and Sam tries to call him, but George (unaware that it is Sam) refuses the call. David, badly sunburned, stays in the hospital, allowing Jenny and George to spend time alone together, culminating in Jenny seducing him to the sounds of Ravel's Boléro. Although George is initially elated to find all of his fantasies being fulfilled, he is horrified when Jenny takes a call from her husband while in bed with him and casually informs him of George's presence. He is even more confused when David responds with a complete lack of concern (he had called to thank George for saving his life). When Jenny explains their open relationship and mutual honesty, George is appalled; with the thrill of enjoying forbidden pleasures extinguished, he loses interest in Jenny (Jenny, for the opposite reasons, loses interest in him as well) and he heads back to Beverly Hills. At the end of the film, he reconciles with Sam by demonstrating a new maturity and, taking an idea from Jenny, he starts Ravel's Boléro on the phonograph and they make love with the music playing in the background. This is in full view of the neighbor's telescope shortly after the neighbor has walked away in disgust, complaining that he has had enough of providing erotic entertainment to George and getting nothing in return.