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28 May 1971 (Finland)
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It started out as five love stories. It didn't end that way. more
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The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and booze. | add synopsis
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Looks like a TV pilot.
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Dyan Cannon | ... | Lorrie Dellman | |
| Richard Crenna | ... | Dr. Peter Brennan | |
| Gene Hackman | ... | Dr. Dave Randolph | |
| Carroll O'Connor | ... | Dr. Joe Gray | |
| Rachel Roberts | ... | Della Randolph | |
| Janice Rule | ... | Amy Brennan | |
| Diana Sands | ... | Helen Straughn | |
| Cara Williams | ... | Maggie Gray | |
| Richard Anderson | ... | Dist. Atty. Douglas | |
| Ralph Bellamy | ... | Jake Porter | |
| John Colicos | ... | Dr. Mort Dellman | |
| George Gaynes | ... | Paul McGill | |
| Marian McCargo | ... | Elaine McGill | |
| Scott Brady | ... | Sgt.Malloy | |
| Kristina Holland | ... | Sybil Carter |
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THE COSTUME BALL
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What would you get if you mixed two parts "ER" with two parts "Dynasty"? You might think that you would get something steamy yet emotionally intriguing. Instead, you might end up getting an awful medical melodrama called "Doctors' Wives".
I have never understood why any movie would have its most interesting character killed off in the first fifteen minutes. The one and only excusable circumstance would be if you show that character in a lot of flashbacks. That doesn't happen in this film and it suffers severely.
"Doctors' Wives" has the look and feel of a TV pilot. There really isn't much location shooting to speak of. Most of the film takes place in a hospital or at the characters' homes. The screenplay is much more interested in introducing a lot of characters to you rather than fleshing any of them out. As a movie, it is dull and laughable. As a TV pilot, it showed that it might have eventually become rather interesting. Or then again...maybe not. 1/10