Near Misses

The latest direct-to-video offering from the Gallic producers of THE MAID, MAY WINE and STROKE OF MIDNIGHT, NEAR MISSES is a desperate screwball farce which mistakes mix-ups and slamming doors for true wit.

Rather incongruously, it begins with a violent break-in at defense contractor Techtronics Industries, with legions of cops shot to death by the intruder. Claude Jobert (Judge Reinhold), a Techtronics employee instrumental to a top-secret satellite project, is thus summoned from the Phoenix home he shares with his spacey vegetarian wife Molly (Cecile Paoli) to the LA sprawl where he lives with glamorous blonde Maggie (Rebecca Pauly)--his other wife. Yes, Claud...