Sexual hypocrisy in Beverly Hills, circa 1968, stands in for the moral debacle of the Nixon years in a metaphor that seems increasingly facile as time goes by. Directed by Hal Ashby from a screenplay by Warren Beatty and Robert Towne, this 1975 feature is slick and often funny, but the smugness of the satire and the stunted emotions are finally wearying. With Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Tony Bill, and Carrie Fisher. 109 min.
