Fashion designer and girl about town Melanie (Witherspoon) has the world of New York society at her feet. When the self-styled JFK Junior of New York (son of Mayor Candice Bergen) proposes, there’s a snag; she’s already married.

It’s shockingly gory, lots of laughs and thanks to taut direction and editing and not dwelling too long on any one joke, Black Sheep doesn’t overstay it’s welcome as much as you fear it might. Some deleted scenes and bloopers don’t add up to much but the commentary by star Nathan Meister and writer/director Jonathan King is worth it.

If it wasn’t all true it would be a bad misogynist parody. One peroxided idiot giggles that her role at high profile media events is to ‘stand there and smile and not do anything stupid’. Another says with a straight face that ‘I feel like I’m getting better with age’. She should perhaps ask the procession of bimbos Hefner’s jettisoned when their silicone sags and ask if they feel the same way.