Another concern: should any of those kids cavorting in your basement run into trouble on their way home, I suspect you would be liable in ways you would find painful - ethically, legally and financially.

They and their equally likable female co-stars, the deliciously mordant Susan Blackwell and the genial Heidi Blickenstaff, play their Pirandellian games with the innocence of kids cavorting in a sandbox.

The self-consciousness is tempered by a wonderful cast performing with the innocence of kids cavorting in a sandbox.

Perhaps the task is not to shoot the sitting duck but to sneak up on it, loop a rope around its webbed feet, hang it upside down, and hit it with a stick until it bursts apart, raining toys and candy on the kids cavorting below--something surprising yet delightfully violent.