Determined to solve the coincidence of seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times in a day, Albert hires a pair of existentialist detectives, who insist on spying on his everyday life while sharing their views on life and the nature of the universe.

This is Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin's first movie together, although the two of them were the original choices for Popeye and Olive Oyl in the Robert Altman film Popeye (1980).

Brad Stand:
How am I not myself?

[repeated]

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bernard hands Vivian the phone for an emergency call from Tommy, the phone is in the right direction. When Vivian receives it, however, the phone is upside down and Vivian begins talking into it without flipping it around.

Written by Shania Twain and Robert John Lange
Performed by Shania Twain
Courtesy of Mercury Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises