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Best Friends

  • 1982
  • PG
  • 1h 56m
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
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Goldie Hawn and Burt Reynolds in Best Friends (1982)
After five successful years of living and working together, a couple decide to get married. But what they don't count on is how to survive the honeymoon.
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After five successful years of living and working together, a couple decide to get married. But what they don't count on is how to survive the honeymoon.After five successful years of living and working together, a couple decide to get married. But what they don't count on is how to survive the honeymoon.After five successful years of living and working together, a couple decide to get married. But what they don't count on is how to survive the honeymoon.

  • Director
    • Norman Jewison
  • Writers
    • Valerie Curtin
    • Barry Levinson
  • Stars
    • Burt Reynolds
    • Goldie Hawn
    • Jessica Tandy
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    • IMDb RATING
    5.5/10
    3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Norman Jewison
    • Writers
      • Valerie Curtin
      • Barry Levinson
    • Stars
      • Burt Reynolds
      • Goldie Hawn
      • Jessica Tandy
    • 28User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
    • 70Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 2 nominations total

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    Burt Reynolds
    Burt Reynolds
    • Richard Babson
    Goldie Hawn
    Goldie Hawn
    • Paula McCullen
    Jessica Tandy
    Jessica Tandy
    • Eleanor McCullen
    Barnard Hughes
    Barnard Hughes
    • Tim McCullen
    Audra Lindley
    Audra Lindley
    • Ann Babson
    Keenan Wynn
    Keenan Wynn
    • Tom Babson
    Ron Silver
    Ron Silver
    • Larry Weisman
    Carol Locatell
    Carol Locatell
    • Nellie Ballou
    Richard Libertini
    Richard Libertini
    • Jorge Medina
    Peggy Walton-Walker
    Peggy Walton-Walker
    • Carol Brandon
    Noah Hathaway
    Noah Hathaway
    • Lyle Ballou
    Mikey Martin
    • Robbie Ballou
    Helen Page Camp
    Helen Page Camp
    • Maid
    Joan Pringle
    Joan Pringle
    • Doria
    Vincent J. Isaac
    • Cab Driver
    Jeffrey Bannister
    • Shoe Salesman
    Alfred Mariorenzi
    • Gate Guard
    David Cullinane
    • Waiter
    • Director
      • Norman Jewison
    • Writers
      • Valerie Curtin
      • Barry Levinson
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      Burt Reynolds once said of his co-star Goldie Hawn in this movie: "Goldie Hawn and I had been talking for five years about doing a movie together. She's someone who makes me laugh. Really laugh. I knew her when she was a dumb blonde and even then she was one of the smartest people I knew" and "We'd meet for dinner and compare notes on the scripts we'd read and liked, but we always ran up against the same problem. The male role always dominated the female character or vice versa. They didn't seem to be writing the kind of give-and-take comedies that Tracy and Hepburn [Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn] or Cary Grant and Jean Arthur used to do."
    • Goofs
      Goldie Hawn mentions Teresa Wright not being on the train in Since You Went Away (1944). It was Jennifer Jones, not Wright.
    • Quotes

      Paula McCullen: Breasts too large, Richard? Every female character you create has breasts too large.

      Richard Babson: Mmm... but I make them suffer for it.

    • Alternate versions
      ABC edited 13 minutes from this film for its 1986 network television premiere.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Dueling Critics (1983)
    • Soundtracks
      How Do You Keep The Music Playing?
      Performed by Patti Austin and James Ingram
      Music by Michel Legrand
      Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
      Produced by Johnny Mandel
      Arranged by Greg Phillinganes & Johnny Mandel

    User reviews28

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    5/10
    An obvious often painful watch
    I saw "Best Friends" in the theater (Bellerose, NY) and I've seen it several times since. I don't like it that much. "Best Friends" does the impossible. It makes two of the most likable stars ever, Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn, and makes them almost unlikable. Burt and Goldie have there moments, the movie does as well, but the weak script is just another '70s anti-marriage movie. Will marriage ruin their relationship? Blah, blah blah. By the time this movie came out, there had already been a bunch of movies like this. There are a handful of laughs in this movie but after an hour of so I just wanted "Best Friends" to end.
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    • Mar 4, 2020

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    • Release date
      • December 17, 1982 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Warner Bros.
      • WB Shop / Warner Archive
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Zwei dicke Freunde
    • Filming locations
      • Central Railroad Terminal, Buffalo, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Warner Bros.
      • Timberlane Productions
      • Major Studio Partners
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $15,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $36,821,203
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $4,022,891
      • Dec 19, 1982
    • Gross worldwide
      • $36,821,203
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 56 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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