The warning is clear: never have an affair with your dentist's wife.

Seemingly happily married dentist couple – living in a nice place, successful, three young daughters – find their lives turned dramatically around when he spots her with another man and tries to figure out what to do.

In a truly pointless film, a re-make of one made at the end of the l970s (and a not-very-good one), Douglas and Brooks go through the motions as the fathers of approaching knot-tying children.