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1 October 1973 (Sweden)
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They had the perfect love affair. Until they fell in love.
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Romantic comedy about a pair of clandestine lovers in a London-Spain tryst. full summary | add synopsis
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Won Oscar.
Another 10 wins
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9 nominations
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Awards 2010: Warren Beatty to Receive ADG Honor
(From Alternative Film Guide. 10 November 2009, 3:13 PM, PST)
(From Alternative Film Guide. 10 November 2009, 3:13 PM, PST)
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A realistic movie about a love affair
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | George Segal | ... | Steven 'Steve' Blackburn |
 | Glenda Jackson | ... | Vicki Allessio |
 | Paul Sorvino | ... | Walter Menkes |
 | K Callan | ... | Patty Menkes |
 | Cec Linder | ... | Wendell Thompson |
| Michael Elwyn | ... | Cecil |
| Mary Barclay | ... | Martha Thompson |
| Nadim Sawalha | ... | Night Hotel Manager |
| Ian Thompson | ... | Derek, Steve's Secretary |
| Ève Karpf | ... | Miss Ramos, London Airline Clerk (as Eve Karpf) |
| David de Keyser | ... | Doctor Alvarez (as David De Keyser) |
| Gaye Brown | ... | Dora French |
| Carl Oatley | ... | Bell Boy |
| Rebecca De Los Reyes | ... | Rent-A-Car Clerk |
| Felipe Solano | ... | Malaga Airline Clerk |
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106 min
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Boom mic visible: Early on in the film, when Vicki and Steve first share the taxi, it is reflected in the windscreen of the taxi just as it pulls up to drop Vicki off in the rain.
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Referenced in "Unhappily Ever After: A Touch of Glass (#2.7)" (1995)
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She Loves Me, She Told Me So Last Night
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A Touch of Class starts off being about a married cad's misadventures in attempting to hook up with a divorced woman who's up for the no-strings-attached sex. It makes the movie's title somewhat ironic, doesn't it?
More than likely, "A Touch of Class" refers to double-Oscar winner Glenda Jackson (Women in Love and this movie), who's just about one of the classiest actresses I've seen. Beautiful, regal, and armed with acerbic British wit, she's the perfect foil to the brash and American George Segal, who incidentally looks just about the same 30 years ago as he does now in Just Shoot Me, except with a better body.
A Touch of Class demonstrates how opposites attract - something I've very familiar with. It's a romantic comedy but its comedic element peaks halfway through the movie with a scene in which the two leads engage in an all-out battle that culminates in a clothes fight and a sex fumble. After that, it's primarily about the two trying to make their love affair work despite Segal's marriage. A successful romantic movie draws us into its convolutions by making us care for its characters and what become of them, which A Touch of Class achieves by giving us the realistic trials and tribulations of an extramarital couple.