Well it’s not actually when you have two superb stars like Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin on the screen, giving us the audience full value for the price of a cinema seat.

Jane Adler (Meryl) is a divorced Californian restaurateur who gets together with her three grown up children for a family gathering, which also includes her ex husband (Alec).

Much fun and frolics are had, having consumed plenty of wine the ex’s rekindle their passion for each other, which lights up the room and gradually they get into an affair.

He is now hitched to a demanding trophy wife. Basically it’s a case of ‘will they or won’t they?’ The only possible fly in the ointment is an architect suitor of Jane, namely Steve Martin, who plays it very low key.

In lesser hands this could have sunk but with Meryl and Alec it’s a lesson in great screen acting. There is a lovely scene with Meryl and her friends, where she reveals all. She says “It turns out I’m a bit of a slut” and I thought, oh no your not! This RomCom in ex Doris Day and Rock Hudson land is a pure joy, you must see it.