A Change of Seasons (1980)

Marriage takes a sour turn when a middle-aged husband falls for a young and sexy woman. Things get even more complicated when his wife starts a hot affair with a young lover of her own.

Directors:

Richard Lang, Noel Black (uncredited)

Writers:

Erich Segal (story), Martin Ransohoff (story)

Stars:

Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek

3 nominations.

Cast

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
Rod Colbin	...	Sam Bingham
Steve Eastin	...	Lance
Christopher Coffey	...	Fritz
Albert Carrière	...	Maitre'd
Billy Beck	...	Older Man
Blake Harris	...	Young Girl #1
Karen Philipp	...	Young Girl #2

Storyline

A self-centred university lecturer thinks it 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.

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Plot Keywords:

woman in shower | hot tub | older woman younger man relationship | older man younger woman relationship | may december romance | 

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Taglines:

A love story starring . . . Mother, Mother's Lover, Dad, Dad's Lover and Dad's Lover's Dad's Lover!!

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 December 1980 (USA)

Also Known As:

Consenting Adults

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Gross USA:

$16,400,000, 31 December 1980

Company Credits

Production Co:

Film Finance Group,Polyc International BV,Twentieth Century Fox

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

First feature film, in which sex symbol Bo Derek was seen, after her breakthrough role in 10 (1979).

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Goofs

On most of the interior shots, and all of the closeups, the daughter's huge eyeglasses are merely frames with no lenses in them.

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Quotes

Pete Lachapelle: We enter this world and leave this world alone. Everything else is a gift.

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Connections

Featured in Sneak Previews: The Jazz Singer/Seems Like Old Times/A Change of Seasons/Resurrection (1980)

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Soundtracks

Where Do You Catch The Bus For Tomorrow?
Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
Music by Henry Mancini
Performed by Kenny Rankin

User Reviews

Seasons Come And Go..

Anthony Hopkins plays a University professor engaged in an affair with a young student(Bo Derek, the perfectly cast "10"). His wife(played by Shirley MacLaine)finds out about it, but rather than divorce him, instead has an affair of her own with a young carpenter who just so happens to be doing work in their home. Hopkins is none to pleased by this, yet the four of them nonetheless go on a skiing trip together at their vacation cabin, where relationships will come to a head, since their college age daughter also arrives with her boyfriend...

Good actors cannot do much with such mundane material. Its attempts to be "modern" about the morality of affairs is awkward and unconvincing, and the film is mostly dreary and unsatisfying, though Bo Derek lights up every scene she is in(especially in the hot tub!)