Scenes from a Mall

• Bette Midler as Deborah Fifer,
• Woody Allen as Nick Fifer,
• Bill Irwin as Mime,
• Daren Firestone as Sam,
• Rebecca Nickels as Jennifer

A Mall (AKA Scenes from a mall) is an American comedy film from 1991 and a tribute to Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage.

Action

Nick and Deborah actually want to celebrate their 16th wedding anniversary. At a joint shopping spree, Nick, however, decides his wife, who has just published a book in which it goes beyond the theories of a harmonious marriage to confess to an affair. Deborah responded initially outraged and hurt. You can Nick are in the shopping center, the celebration calls off and wanders through the corridors unhappy. Nick, meanwhile, has time to be clear about what a great wife, Deborah, and repented his confession very soon. But 16 years of marriage are not soon forget, and so the two find after a few minutes of despair back together. In love as the day everything seems to be back to normal.

But after the mood between the two is more romantic again, also it comes with a bad news for Nick: she too had an affair with a highly respected psychologist. Now Nick is the one who can stand Deborah. The common possessions are divided in thought, the assets will be justly forgive, the wedding reception is canceled and the marriage seems to finally broken.

Reviews

• Filmdienst 7/1991: A simply designed marriage comedy that puts less of its history as a succession hardly rousing gags and can give no particular charm even the high-profile actors.
• Epd Film 4/1991: The inner dramaturgy of the event creates no apparent structure, so a very embarrassing pantomime has to end every single episode making faces for transitioning to the next substantive idea. The further the film, the bemühter be the incursions of the staging.