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Murphy's Romance (1985)
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31 January 1986 (USA)
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Just when you think you've found the right guy, someone even worse comes along.
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Emma is a divorced woman with a teen aged boy who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch...
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Horse Ranch
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Ex Husband
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Love
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Nominated for 2 Oscars.
Another 2 nominations
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A Chick Flick?
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Sally Field | ... | Emma Moriarty |
 | James Garner | ... | Murphy Jones |
 | Brian Kerwin | ... | Bobby Jack Moriarty |
| Corey Haim | ... | Jake Moriarty |
| Dennis Burkley | ... | Freeman Coverly |
| Georgann Johnson | ... | Margaret |
| Dortha Duckworth | ... | Bessie |
| Michael Prokopuk | ... | Albert |
| Billy Ray Sharkey | ... | Larry Le Beau |
| Michael Crabtree | ... | Jim Forrest |
| Anna Levine | ... | Wanda |
 | Charles Lane | ... | Amos Abbott |
 | Bruce French | ... | Rex Boyd |
| John C. Becher | ... | Jesse Parker |
| Henry Slate | ... | Fred Hite |
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107 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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Gene Blakely's final film.
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Factual errors: Any experienced Bingo player knows that it would NOT have taken that many numbers for Emma to get a Bingo in the N's. Sally Field's character won the biggest jackpot of the night - normally, a special game (for example, forming the letter T) would have been played in order for her to win so much money.
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Features Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
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I LOVE YOU ONLY
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Sure, this is a romantic comedy, but I wouldn't call it a chick flick. It's a great story, and all the principals work effortlessly towards making the film just downright entertaining.
Garner is at his best as an understatedly charming small-town pharmacist who becomes entangled in the life of a fiercely independent single mother with a deadbeat ex-husband. Field hits all the right notes with her character, but I can't tell if she's stepping back, or she just doesn't know how to play against Garner's lackadaisical style. Brian Kerwin gives his best screen performance as her ex, and sure, he plays a deadbeat, but he just oozes sex appeal.