Summary
Warren Kent, a salesman of middling talents but grand philosophies, imposes 'The Unending Courtship' upon his bewildered bride Betty—a marital experiment demanding separate residences and strictly regimented Wednesday rendezvous, preserving engagement's chaste tension indefinitely. This brittle construct shatters when Warren's professional incompetence costs him both employment and dignity, coinciding with a catastrophic cascade of misinterpretations: He misreads Betty's digestive malaise as pregnancy while her mother, observing Warren's frantic consultations with vivacious friend Ethel, constructs an elaborate narrative of infidelity. As Warren's meticulously controlled world implodes—jobless, suspected of adultery, and anticipating fatherhood he never planned—the film dissects male fragility through a lens of self-sabotage and societal absurdity.
Synopsis
Salesman Warren Kent develops the idea of "The Unending Courtship" and manages to convince his new wife Betty of his theory, which entails their living separately and only meeting on Wednesday evenings, as they did while they were engaged. Warren's boss, however, who was never enamored of the idea, fires him when he bungles an account and loses the company a large order. On top of that, through a series of misunderstandings Warren comes to believe that his wife is pregnant and his mother-in-law believes that Warren is having an affair with Betty's friend Ethel. Things go downhill for Warren from there.
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