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 | |
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MacIntyre Dixon | ... | Dan Ryan |
Jay O. Sanders | ... | Larry (as Jay Sanders) | |
Charles Kimbrough | ... | Salesman | |
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Richard Whiting | ... | Everett |
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Alfie Wise | ... | Workshop Member |
Wallace Shawn | ... | Workshop Member | |
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Sturgis Warner | ... | John Morganson |
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Mary Catherine Wright | ... | Student 1 (as Mary C. Wright) |
Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ditched by his ambitious singer wife (Candice Bergen), until he begins to forge a new new relationship with an equally insecure teacher (Jill Clayburgh). But when the wife attempts a reconciliation - seduction followed by a truly excruciating song she has composed for him - he realizes where his loyalty lies. Written by alfiehitchie
Man, what a difference 20 years or so makes! I'm not sure when I saw this movie, but since it came out in 1979, and I saw it on TV (probably cable at my brother's house)-it was surely in the early 80s. I couldn't remember the movie very well (though I do distinctly remember Burt Reynolds taking the polaroids of Jill Clayburgh in the shower, and her laughing at the tall basketball player) but I knew that I thought it was funny. In fact it was funny enough to go on my short list of movies to watch again soon (you know that one that you never seem to get to). Well imagine my surprise when I saw this video in the bargain-bin of the video store here on the U.S. Army base in Yongsan Korea for two bucks!
Well I liked the movie back then, but I watched it with totally different eyes as a 37 year-old man. It was still funny, but in a much more relative way. Back then I thought Reynold's antics were charming, now I see them as irrepressible. I'm sure I thought Clayburgh's character was a little strange back then, now I see her as vulnerable and true.
This is a very good movie with numerous scenes that are funny and touching. In an industry flooded with banal romantic-comedies this should set the mark.