A successful but stressed mathematics professor goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son, a prematurely retired pro baseball player. She must choose betwe... Read allA successful but stressed mathematics professor goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son, a prematurely retired pro baseball player. She must choose between him and her current boyfriend, between Chicago and New York, and between research and a... Read allA successful but stressed mathematics professor goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son, a prematurely retired pro baseball player. She must choose between him and her current boyfriend, between Chicago and New York, and between research and administration.
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- Gail
- (as Diane Wiest)
- Professor
- (as Ronald C. Frazier)
- Professor
- (as Edwin J. McDonough)
- Jerry Lanz Man
- (as Ralph Mauro)
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- TriviaKate Gunzinger's proof of the "Snake Lemma" at the very beginning of the movie is technically perfect. Charles A. Weibel's book "An Introduction to Homological Algebra" (1994, Cambridge University Press) includes the following statement "We will not print the proof (of the Snake Lemma) in these notes, because it is best done visually."
- GoofsThe font of the F changes during the course of solving the Snake Lemma in the beginning of the film.
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[First lines.]
Kate Gunzinger: Let me just show you how to *construct* the map S, which is the fun of the lemma anyhow, okay? So you assume you have an element in the kernel of gamma, that is, an element in C, such that gamma takes you to 0 in C-prime. You pull it back to B, via map g, which is surjective...
Cooperman: Hold it, hold it, hold it. That's -- that's not unique.
Kate Gunzinger: Yes, it is unique, Mr. Cooperman. Up to an element of the image of f, all right? So we've pulled it back to a fixed B here. Then you take beta of B, which takes you to 0 in C-prime, by the commutivity of the diagram. It's therefore in the kernel of the map g-prime, hence is in the image of the map f-prime, by the exactness of the lower sequence...
Cooperman: No.
Kate Gunzinger: ...so we can pull it back...
Cooperman: No.
Kate Gunzinger: ...to an element in A-prime...
Cooperman: It's not well defined!
Kate Gunzinger: ...which it turns out is *well* defined *modulo* the image of alpha. And thus defines the element in the co-kernel of alpha...
[draws arrow on diagram]
Kate Gunzinger: and that's the "snake"! And on Monday, we'll address ourselves to
[Cooperman raises hand]
Kate Gunzinger: the co-homology of groups... and Mr. Cooperman's next objections.
- SoundtracksIt's My Turn
Music by Michael Masser
Lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager
Sung by Diana Ross
Produced by Michael Masser
(P) 1980 Motown Records
Here, the protagonist is perhaps the most glamorous mathematics professor ever (she wears stilettos to class, but earthy gal that she is, removes them while solving equations at the blackboard). She's got relationship issues with her widowed dad who's remarrying, and with her divorced live-in boyfriend, plus she's conflicted about whether to take a new job in a new city that pays much more, but won't allow her to continue her research. She breezily describes her various complications as "modern problems," which tells you that the creators here felt they were at the very cutting edge of portraying the quintessential "liberated" woman. Laura Linney's character in "You Can Count On Me" had a similarly complicated life, but that film didn't feel the need for its characters to be so self-aware.
Michael Douglas enters the picture to help her figure out where/how to get the healthy, giving relationship that everyone around her seems to have, and that therefore is "her turn" to get (get it?)
This is a decent movie that actually doesn't feel particularly dated, (save for Clayburgh's Oscar-bait "big scene" towards the end) despite its obvious 70's era feminist overtones. But perhaps because of its agenda, the romance doesn't exactly sweep you off your feet.
As with most movies from the 80s, part of the fun is seeing what stars/faces of the future show up. Here, we get a young Daniel Stern, almost unrecognizable as Clayburgh's star pupil, and future "Law and Order" District Attorneys Steven Hill and Dianne Wiest.
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- Also known as
- A Perfect Circle
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- New York City, New York, USA(Exterior, one week)
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- Gross US & Canada
- $11,000,000
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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