Mild idiocy is expected from summer films; Compromising Positions, an Indian-summer film, is better, but still a dishonest Injun. Based on a best-selling novel by Susan Isaacs and scripted by her, Frank Perry’s film is a comedy-thriller, a not unattractive genre as long as it knows how to hold its antithetical components in easeful balance. Though you cannot seriously fault the film’s manual dexterity, you deplore some of its fancy footwork.
This is the story of Judith Singer, a former Newsday reporter, now retired to seemingly happy young matronhood in Shorehaven, Long Island. She has a decent, hard-working lawyer husband, Bob, a good provider whose only fault is getting too wrapped up in his work, and two children, a perfectly matched set of beamish boy and girl. She also has a lecherous periodontist, Dr. Fleck-
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