The eponymous well heeled juvenile duo whose adventures make up the core of this new American film accept without question the wealth that quite obviously surrounds them – luxurious apartments in a very fashionable part of West Side Manhattan, a classy private school, and all of the other trappings of the American 'good life'. What Jamie and Franny are having difficulty coping with are the breakups – one recent, the other imminent – of their parents' marriages, and it is this topic – the effect of divorce on children – that the movie sets out to tackle.

Unfortunately scenarist Judith Ross has felt it necessary to give us both sides of the story, and as a result, we are presented with an anthology of contemporary neuroses and ennui through the exposition of the children's parents. The film's advertising tag line ('What happens when the kids grow up and the adults don't?') should prepare the audience for what they are about to see, but the film itself bludgeons the point home by portraying all of the characters over the age of twelve as caricatures of the grown-ups that they should be. Franny's parents must put on an elaborate (and ineffectual) masquerade each