Unless your name is Luis Bunuel, you shouldn't devote one third of a movie to dream sequences. That's one of the first mistakes made in the sex farce The Favor. Another tip is that you shouldn't do a sex farce if you don't intend to have some sex in it. The Favor is mostly tease, without much strip. Even worse, it's the kind of comedy in which the story is possible only as long as the characters behave like idiots.
Harley Jane Kozak (Arachnophobia) plays a happily married woman who still isn't over her teenage crush on her high school boyfriend (Ken Wahl of TV's Wise Guy). They never went “all the way,” and she can't get the possibility of it out of her mind. So, she asks her best friend (Elizabeth McGovern) to do the deed and report back with the glowing results.
Golly! Just imagine the mirth-filled complications.
Bill Pullman and Brad Pitt play the chumps who spend most of their time being jerked around by their own stupidity. Not that Kozak and McGovern are much better; it's just that they, at least, have a few good lines.
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