He and Evans never find their groove, and while Evans’ Boston-accented deadbeat cad routine is rote for him at this point, Johnson feels adrift, never locking in to a specific tone.

It's a lot harder to be a carefree cad about town when you have child support payments or even, as the religious right hopes, a shotgun marriage.

But his career as a humorous cad took off in 1980 when he landed the part of the “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” Franklin Hart Jr. in Colin Higgins’ radical feminist comedy, “9 to 5.”

Paul is a bit of cad, and not even entertainingly awful.

Handsome and popular, his bad boyfriend would be a stock cad in any other movie.