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It's My Turn

  • 1980
  • R
  • 1h 31m
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5.5/10
1.1K
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It's My Turn (1980)
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 between him and her current boyfriend, between Chicago and New York, and between research and administration.
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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.

  • Director
    • Claudia Weill
  • Writer
    • Eleanor Bergstein
  • Stars
    • Jill Clayburgh
    • Michael Douglas
    • Charles Grodin
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.5/10
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    • Director
      • Claudia Weill
    • Writer
      • Eleanor Bergstein
    • Stars
      • Jill Clayburgh
      • Michael Douglas
      • Charles Grodin
    • 9User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Michael Douglas and Jill Clayburgh in It's My Turn (1980)
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    Michael Douglas and Jill Clayburgh in It's My Turn (1980)
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    Jill Clayburgh
    Jill Clayburgh
    • Kate Gunzinger
    Michael Douglas
    Michael Douglas
    • Ben Lewin
    Charles Grodin
    Charles Grodin
    • Homer
    Beverly Garland
    Beverly Garland
    • Emma
    Steven Hill
    Steven Hill
    • Jacob
    Teresa Baxter
    • Maryanne
    Joan Copeland
    Joan Copeland
    • Rita
    John Gabriel
    John Gabriel
    • Hunter
    Charles Kimbrough
    Charles Kimbrough
    • Jerome
    Roger Robinson
    Roger Robinson
    • Flicker
    Jennifer Salt
    Jennifer Salt
    • Maisie
    Daniel Stern
    Daniel Stern
    • Cooperman
    Dianne Wiest
    Dianne Wiest
    • Gail
    • (as Diane Wiest)
    Ron Frazier
    Ron Frazier
    • Professor
    • (as Ronald C. Frazier)
    Edwin McDonough
    • Professor
    • (as Edwin J. McDonough)
    Toshi Toda
    Toshi Toda
    • Professor
    Robert Ackerman
    Robert Ackerman
    • Good Will Man
    Raf Mauro
    Raf Mauro
    • Jerry Lanz Man
    • (as Ralph Mauro)
    • Director
      • Claudia Weill
    • Writer
      • Eleanor Bergstein
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    • Trivia
      Kate Gunzinger (Jill Clayburgh)'s proof of the "Snake Lemma" at the very beginning of the movie is technically perfect. In Charles A. Weibel's book "An Introduction to Homological Algebra" (1994, Cambridge University Press), there appears the following statement: "We will not print the proof (of the Snake Lemma) in these notes, because it is best done visually." In fact, a clear proof is actually given by Clayburgh at the beginning of this film.
    • Quotes

      [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.

    • Connections
      Featured in Sneak Previews: Hopscotch/It's My Turn/Loving Couples/The Elephant Man/Motel Hell (1980)
    • Soundtracks
      It's My Turn
      Music by Michael Masser

      Lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager

      Sung by Diana Ross

      Produced by Michael Masser

      (P) 1980 Motown Records

    User reviews9

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    5/10
    Enjoyable if flawed romance with two appealing leads
    I enjoyed this movie even though the script was clumsily written. Kate (Clayburgh) is an attractive mathematician and instructor at a Chicago university and lives with her divorced boyfriend, Homer (Grodin), a developer. They seem to have a pleasant, but not particularly romantic or close relationship. Kate goes to NYC alone to attend both her widowed father's wedding and a job interview for a high-paying position in Manhattan. She meets Ben (Douglas), the son of her new stepmother and a retired baseball player who's unhappily married to a wife who is away (we never see her).

    A whirlwind romance between Kate and Ben causes her to question what she really wants in her career and personal life. Douglas is very sexy in this role, and blends an earthy confidence and openness about his feelings with a touch of cynicism.

    Clayburgh played this same basic role in the much better-written and directed "An Unmarried Woman" (by Paul Mazursky) a few years earlier, but I still related to Kate's feeling of being at a crossroads in her life, wanting to take "her turn," and contemplating imperfect or risky choices in order to "go for it." Career ambition and love are equally important to her. Both Clayburgh and Douglas are appealing and attractive on screen. They both seem like mature individuals who are nonetheless confused about which choices to make in life. A better script would have made this a much stronger film about a topic that resonates with a lot of people over 35.

    Both the writer and director are women, so I think the focus is very much on women of that era exploring new opportunities that would not have been open to their mothers. Yet old-fashioned romance and commitment are shown as worthy ideals.
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    • Release date
      • February 5, 1981 (Argentina)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Sony Movie Channel (United States)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • A Perfect Circle
    • Filming locations
      • New York City, New York, USA(Exterior, one week)
    • Production company
      • Rastar Films
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $11,000,000
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 31 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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