A plan was devised to have Dave remain at work, so that if Evelyn phoned in, her call could be traced to her location.[A record of sorts, it was thefirstUS feature film to show a bathroom with a toilet bowl.]With a novice actor (James Murray) in the lead role, he film was simply a realistic, bittersweet drama of the existence of an ordinary common and average American (an Everyman prototype embodied in a white-collar worker) trying to make it with his wife in the monolithic big city - but without any maudlin sentimentality, extreme passion, exploitation of romance, or escapist melodrama.He entered the store and gestured to the store clerk (Christine Francis) if she would sell the $3 dollar box for $2 dollars, but she shook her head.Extremely sleepy, Dylan again asked for Rex, fearing: "The bad man""s getting awful close," and Heather promised to go home (nearby, "right across the freeway") to retrieve his stuffed animal.In fact, one of the film""s major themes is disguise and masquerade - e.g., the drag costumes of the two male musicians, Joe""s disguise as a Cary Grant-like impotent millionaire, and Jerry""s happiness with a real wealthy, yacht-owning retiree.