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It's My Turn

  • 19801980
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  • 1h 31m
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5.5/10
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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.
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
1K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
24,753
2,809
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    • Director
      • Claudia Weill
    • Writer
      • Eleanor Bergstein
    • Stars
      • Jill Clayburgh
      • Michael Douglas
      • Charles Grodin
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Claudia Weill
    • Writer
      • Eleanor Bergstein
    • Stars
      • Jill Clayburgh
      • Michael Douglas
      • Charles Grodin
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    • 9User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    It's My Turn (1980)
    Michael Douglas in It's My Turn (1980)
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    Michael Douglas and Jill Clayburgh in It's My Turn (1980)
    Michael Douglas and Jill Clayburgh in It's My Turn (1980)
    Michael Douglas and Jill Clayburgh in It's My Turn (1980)
    Michael Douglas and Jill Clayburgh in It's My Turn (1980)
    Michael Douglas and Jill Clayburgh in It's My Turn (1980)
    Jill Clayburgh in It's My Turn (1980)
    Michael Douglas and Jill Clayburgh in It's My Turn (1980)
    Michael Douglas in It's My Turn (1980)
    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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    Top review
    4/10
    Stock feminist values...
    Before "Wall Street" and "Fatal Attraction" put him on Hollywood's A-list, Michael Douglas kicked around with secondary roles in an assortment of comedies and dramas, and he was usually miscast. Either playing the smartass cameraman in "The China Syndrome" or the judge in "The Star Chamber", Douglas exuded confidence but no star-wattage. In "It's My Turn", a sort-of feminist comedy-drama second-biller for "An Unmarried Woman", Douglas is an ex-pro ballplayer with a scruffy beard who dates teacher Jill Clayburgh, the Unmarried Woman herself, who apparently hadn't used up all her feminist angst. Written and directed by women (Eleanor Bergstein and Claudia Weill, respectively), the movie wobbles around from scene to scene without a hope in hell of satisfying an audience of either sex. Clayburgh tries out different bits of shtick, but this persona (a brilliant-but-klutzy gal on the go) isn't funny or very interesting. Poor Charles Grodin is stuck yet again playing third fiddle, while Douglas is amiable and rascally and livens things up briefly (you can feel the movie come to life when he's on-screen). The theme song, sung by Diana Ross and co-written by Carole Bayer Sager, is pretty yet filled with claptrap rhetoric and fantasy delusions ("I've given up the truth/To those I've tried to please"). "It's My Turn" ends up pleasing nobody. *1/2 from ****
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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
    • 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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