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Overview

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6.7/10   2,201 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Max Schott (story)
Harriet Frank Jr. (writer) ...
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Release Date:
31 January 1986 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Just when you think you've found the right guy, someone even worse comes along.
Plot:
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... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Streep Noms, #6 (1985)
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User Comments:
A Chick Flick? more (27 total)

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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Runtime:
107 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Gene Blakely's final film. more
Goofs:
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. more
Quotes:
Murphy: I am in love for the last time in my life.
Emma: And I am in love for the first time.
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Movie Connections:
Features Friday the 13th Part III (1982) more
Soundtrack:
I LOVE YOU ONLY more

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10 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
A Chick Flick?, 2 July 2005
8/10
Author: rustydog from Jackson, Mississippi

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.

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