Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter

Released in the United States as “Tune in tomorrow”, this is John Amiel’s screen version of Mario Vargas Llosa’s acclaimed novel “Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter”. Aunt Julia (Barbara Hershey), a double divorcee, returns to New Orleans at age 36 to find a wealthy third husband. Instead, she finds her 21-year-old nephew by marriage (Keanu Reeves), a local radio station newswriter, who falls in love with her. She succumbs to his advances, incurring her family’s anger. The plot is overlaid with the more complicated story of a dishevelled writer, Falk, who is new in town. Falk manipulates the nephew-aunt relationship in his radio soap opera which is laced with incest and anti-Albanian sentiment. This is a clever and witty romantic comedy that features an amazing supporting cast including John Laroquette, Elizabeth McGovern, Dennis Quaid and others.