Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Shirley MacLaine | ... | Karyn Evans | |
Anthony Hopkins | ... | Adam Evans | |
Bo Derek | ... | Lindsey Rutledge | |
Michael Brandon | ... | Pete Lachapelle | |
Mary Beth Hurt | ... | Kasey Evans | |
Edward Winter | ... | Steven Rutledge | |
Paul Regina | ... | Paul Di Lisi | |
K Callan | ... | Alice Bingham | |
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Rod Colbin | ... | Sam Bingham |
Steve Eastin | ... | Lance | |
Christopher Coffey | ... | Fritz | |
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Albert Carrière | ... | Maitre'd |
Billy Beck | ... | Older Man | |
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Blake Harris | ... | Young Girl #1 |
Karen Philipp | ... | Young Girl #2 |
A self-centered university lecturer thinks it's quite all right that he has taken one of his students as a lover, but is deeply hurt when his wife retaliates by taking a similar approach with a visiting carpenter. His announcement that he is off to the family holiday home for some skiing with his paramour is met by his wife insisting she and her young joiner go too, and the four set off for an awkward time in the snow. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Great "find" in video stores boasts a really good script regarding the sexual strayings of a mid-life couple. Anthony Hopkins plays the philandering husband (Bo Derek the young hot tart) and Shirley MacLaine plays the wife who takes up with a lover of her own. This topic is now "hot" again what with Oscar winner "American Beauty" not to mention the whole Monica-Clinton affair. Don't let Bo Derek's name keep you from watching this film (and why should it when Anthony Hopkins and Shirley MacLaine are the leads?) Bo does the "Bo" thing early on (in a hot tub no less) so this film really does offer the best of all worlds. Should be watched with another Shirley MacLaine movie with a very similar plot that was released the same year (1980) called "Loving Couples" (with James Coburn the philandering husband and a young Susan Sarandon the young hot tart). They were released between "Being There" (1979) and "Terms of Endearment" (1983) so if you are wondering what Shirley MacLaine did between her two very different roles in those films here's your answer. Shirley is charming. Great entertainment.