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| Jacqueline Bisset | ... |
Liz Hamilton
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| Candice Bergen | ... |
Merry Noel Blake
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| David Selby | ... |
Douglas 'Doug' Blake
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| Hart Bochner | ... |
Christopher 'Chris' Adams
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| Steven Hill | ... |
Jules Levi
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| Meg Ryan | ... |
Debby Blake, 18 Years
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| Matt Lattanzi | ... |
Jim, the Boy
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| Daniel Faraldo | ... |
Ginger Trinidad
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| Nicole Eggert | ... |
Debby Blake, 8 Years
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Joe Maross | ... |
Martin Fornam
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Kres Mersky | ... |
Judy Heller
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Cloyce Morrow | ... |
Martha Antilles
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| Cheryl Robinson | ... |
UCLA Voice
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| Allan Warnick | ... |
Desk Clerk
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Ann Risley | ... |
Max's Wife
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Liz and Merry Noel become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected "serious" novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes, too: "trash" fiction which becomes enormously successful. Their story begins in college and jumps ahead some years at a time to show their relationship with each other and those in their orbits as they grow and mature. Written by Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
George Cukor is an actresses director.He told himself it was nothing but an old cliché ,probably as old as the hills ,as old as "gone with the wind" when Leigh and De Havilland went on rehearsing with him even after he was fired.
But this cliché is completely true here.Every scene where Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen are together is riveting,dazzling,moving,funny all at once.but when the movie deals with Bisset's love affairs,it 's an awful bore.Doug's scenes are watchable at a pinch because the actor has a certain presence ,but the Rolling Stone guy's ones are almost unbearable,being bland ,pseudo-intellectual ;this is really a lightweight performance ,to put it mildly.
But the two actresses work wonders when they share the screen.Two scenes highlight the movie:the first ,in Malibu,where the two women spend a whole night reading Bergen's writing prowess;the second in NYC,when they have an ultimate quarrel :Bisset tells her mate she's only one part of a woman:you easily guess which one.
Of course ,it's a very uneven movie and inferior to Cukor's precedent work ("travels with my aunt",not counting his ill-fated "the blue bird") but the fast forward button is useful when the movie begins to drag on.