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Release Date:
15 February 1980 (Australia)
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Tagline:
Phil Potter would like to straighten out his life...One way, or the other.
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A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This effects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 2 Oscars.
Another 6 nominations
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(3 articles)
The Keeper Promises An Abundance Of Seagal-Related Mayhem
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Well Made Comedy
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Burt Reynolds | ... | Phil Potter |
 | Jill Clayburgh | ... | Marilyn Holmberg |
 | Candice Bergen | ... | Jessica Potter |
| Charles Durning | ... | Michael (Mickey) Potter |
| Frances Sternhagen | ... | Marva Potter |
 | Austin Pendleton | ... | Paul |
 | Mary Kay Place | ... | Marie |
| MacIntyre Dixon | ... | Dan Ryan |
 | Jay O. Sanders | ... | Larry (as Jay Sanders) |
| Charles Kimbrough | ... | Salesman |
| Richard Whiting | ... | Everett |
| Alfie Wise | ... | Workshop Member |
 | Wallace Shawn | ... | Workshop Member |
| Sturgis Warner | ... | John Morganson |
| Mary Catherine Wright | ... | Student 1 (as Mary C. Wright) |
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105 min
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1.78 : 1 more
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Iceland:L |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-12 |
France:U |
Norway:16 |
USA:R |
UK:AA (original rating) |
UK:15 (re-rating) (1987)
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One of the locations was an actual apartment building in New York City. Tenants were upset because they were forbidden from entering or leaving their apartments while scenes were shot in the hallway.
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Revealing mistakes: As Jessica and Phil prepare to go to bed, he slips off underwear below bottom frame line. But as shot continues, actor Burt Reynolds is clearly wearing abbreviated white undergarment.
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Quotes:
Phil Potter:
If I don't touch you soon I'll go out of my mind.
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Referenced in Fist of Fear, Touch of Death (1980)
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Starting Over
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This well made adaptation of Dan Wakefield's novel has wonderful comic moments and full-bodied performances. Burt Reynolds underplays his role and does some of the finest work of his roller-coaster career (it's up there with "Boogie Nights" and "Deliverance"). Candice Bergen is hysterical in the role of the wife who wants freedom and a singing career. (Little did we know in 1979 that Bergen would go onto great comedic success as Murphy Brown)James L. Brooks does a terrific job with the screenplay - the divorced men's group scenes really ring true and the moment when they have to leave their community center space so the women's divorce group can then use the room is uncomfortable and very funny. In my opinion, Clayburgh gives an up and down performance, sometimes really connecting with Reynolds and other times she just seems to be impersonating Diane Keaton. Fine supporting work by the always reliable Charles Durning and Austin Pendleton. This film is very hard to find in video stores for some reason. I just happned to catch it again on cable and was pleasantly surprised with how well it holds up.