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This movie has two parallel story lines, one which develops tragically and one with a happy ending. In both, a couple tries to match their divorced friend Melinda to a dentist. In the first story the dentist is a widower with a daughter. He has a very successful dental practice in Manhattan. The couple think he's lonely because he's taken ads in the personal columns and considered him a good catch. When the dentist meets Melinda at a party, he tells her that he likes to hike in the mountains and that it has been really tough on his daughter and how he wants to make her happy and educate herself. Then his beeper goes off and he asks Melinda to excuse him, because he has to contact his daughter's new babysitter.

In the other story the husband has some reservations about introducing Melinda to the dentist: 'Wasn't he full of himself, though? Kind of an unjustified self-confidence?' His wife opposes: 'He's a very rich dentist. He's cultivated and athletic. He's gorgeous-looking.' Her husband does not agree: 'Gorgeous dentist is an oxymoron.'

A few days later broad smiling dentist Greg picks up Melinda and the couple in his Bentley. They drive to Greg's huge house in the Hamptons, filled with hunting trophies. Greg explains that he goes twice a year to Africa where he shot all those trophies. After saying goodbye in the evening, the husband, who clearly dislikes the dentist, concludes: 'l wouldn't let that guy fill my teeth. I mean, anyone who gets his jollies putting holes in animals... The Ernest Hemingway of the root canal set.' A few moments later the couple hear Melinda screaming. They run to her next door apartment while the husband assumes that Greg is trying to rape Melinda. 'Probably put Novocaine in her margarita.' However, it turns out that Melinda has a tick on her leg, and Greg already left because his beeper went off for some kind of emergency.

In both stories, Melinda does not fall for the dentist, but for a musician instead.