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Writers:
Phil Mishkin (written by) and
Rick Podell (written by) ...
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Release Date:
2 October 1982 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Plot:
A marine biologist who is celibate. A lawyer whom no woman can't seem to resist. What happens when the two of them meet? full summary | add synopsis
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another not so perfect affair more (2 total)

Cast

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Victoria Principal ... Dr. Diana Dawson

Gil Gerard ... Bob Gifford
Robert Webber ... Professor Wally Dawson
Barbara Barrie ... Martha Dawson
Richard Kline ... Andrew Saul

Markie Post ... Jan Thacker
Albert Hague ... Professor Zakall
Judy Strangis ... Dee Courso

Ed Begley Jr. ... Warren Krantz
Steve Franken ... Dr. Morton Schiller

Jill Jacobson ... Sophia Theodore
Carmen Zapata ... Judge Mercado
William Dozier ... Julius Thompkins
Joseph Chapman ... Norm

Luis Avalos ... Dr. Compos
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Perfect Affair
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Runtime:
95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:L
Company:
CBS Entertainment Production more

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another not so perfect affair, 3 February 2003
Author: petershelleyau from Sydney, Australia

Dr Diana Dawson (Victoria Principal) is a California marine biologist who files a suit against GJS Constructions proposal to escavate the oceanline. The lawyer for GJS is Bob Gifford (Gill Gerrard), a reknowned womaniser, who wants to make Diana a conquest, but Diana is a vowed celibate. She dates him to learn his case strategy but soon both learn to change their behaviour. Will Bob withdraw from the defence citing a conflict of interest? Will Diana testify that she loves him?

Principal looks very beautiful, wearing her hair up for Diana's serious scenes, produces a witches cackle when drunk, and is funny when deflecting the insult of a female rival.

The teleplay by Philip Mishkin, Rick Podell and Michael Preminger make Diana bookish and clumsy, a woman who resents how attractive she is and how it works against her intentions, but also makes Bob aware of his own manipulative behaviour. The hero worship of Bob's friends is adolescent projection, and Diana is given a housemate Dee (Judy Strangis) who is promiscuous but unhappy to enforce the moral superiority of Diana's position, which is a reaction to a prevous betrayal.

Director Steve H Stern uses split screen at one point, but his treatment progressively winds down in energy, only redeemed by the sniping of Diana's soon-to-be divorced parents Wally and Martha (Robert Webber and Barbara Barrie). Stern also uses two songs on the soundtrack by Arthur B Rubinstein with vocals by Barbra Streisand's sister Roslyn Kind.

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