A wonderfully entertaining film -- and the story The Unmarried Mother tells is truly harrowing -- but, after some reflection, I suspect this works much better on the page than on screen.

In the original short story by Robert A. Heinlein, on which this film is based, I assume you're left to imagine how the characters of The Unmarried Mother and The Barkeep look and sound. But, once given a physical realisation on screen, it makes it difficult to suspend disbelief. (I can't say more without including spoilers.)

So this is a wild, entertaining and disturbing ride as you try to work out the relationship between the various characters. But at the end of the film you may look back and think that, for all that, it really doesn't work.