A bigamist must keep his wives from meeting each other, which becomes tricky when they're both pregnant.A bigamist must keep his wives from meeting each other, which becomes tricky when they're both pregnant.A bigamist must keep his wives from meeting each other, which becomes tricky when they're both pregnant.
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TV reporter Rob Salinger is married to Micki, but because she's always busy working, they hardly ever spend time together. One night at which he got stood up by Micki again, Rob meets cellist Maude and they soon get romanticly involved. When it turns out Maude is pregnant with his baby, Rob decides to marry Maude. When he's on the verge of telling Micki, she tells him she's pregnant, so he doesn't have the heart to leave her, but he marries Maude anyway. Now married to two pregnant women who don't know about each other, Rob has a busy time taking care of both and keep them from finding out. —Leon Wolters <wolters@strw.LeidenUniv.nl>
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- Micki was the only woman he ever wanted to marry. Until he met Maude. So, he did what any honorable man would do. He married them both.
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- PG-13
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- TriviaDudley Moore recommended Amy Irving for the part of Maude and got her. According to Barbra Paskin's biography "Dudley Moore: The Melancholy Clown" (2000), Moore "...was a staunch admirer of the beautiful actress with the renaissance face, and had she not been married at the time to Steven Spielberg...he would have pursued her into a romance".
- GoofsWhen the wives go to the OB/GYNE they go into rooms next to each other. Micki goes into an exam room on the right with the nurse's desk clearly to the right. However, when she is seen exiting, she exits an exam room that is blocked by the nurse's desk area.
- Quotes
Maude Salinger: [during labor] I'm fine, except for some incredibly painful spasms which let me know that there IS a God, and He's a sexist pig!
- Alternate versionsCBS edited 22 minutes from this film for its 1987 network television premiere.
- SoundtracksSomething New in My Life
Music by Michel Legrand
Lyrics by Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman
Performed by Stephen Bishop
Produced by Spencer Proffer
Top review
Insensitive Farce
I've been punishing myself watching all Dudley Moore's movies from the 80's. His usual unsympathetic movie persona is here: A successful man in his field despite lacking professionalism that inevitably advances on his leading ladies while running and screaming through corridors in labored plots.
Blake Edwards tries to sugarcoat Moore's dubious moral compass in this farce. Moore is a caring husband/lover that desperately wants to be a family man but shamelessly cheats his love interests. This dissonance in values never goes away and kinda ruins the lighthearted tone of this comedy.
I loved Ann Reinking as the innocent perfect wife. The really good acting on her part that kept this movie entertaining. Amy Irving's is not exactly a counterpoint and could be more fleshed out. Moore does a competent job being more awake in the role than in his later movies.
The plot is nothing special and there's a unfortunate shadow of Arthur (1981) in the relationship between Rob and Leo mirroring Arthur and Hobson that is underdeveloped and seems tackled into the movie. Curiously, in Lovesick(1983) Moore's character also has an older figure that his character listen to and try to sort his problems.
Not a bad movie, but not good either.
Blake Edwards tries to sugarcoat Moore's dubious moral compass in this farce. Moore is a caring husband/lover that desperately wants to be a family man but shamelessly cheats his love interests. This dissonance in values never goes away and kinda ruins the lighthearted tone of this comedy.
I loved Ann Reinking as the innocent perfect wife. The really good acting on her part that kept this movie entertaining. Amy Irving's is not exactly a counterpoint and could be more fleshed out. Moore does a competent job being more awake in the role than in his later movies.
The plot is nothing special and there's a unfortunate shadow of Arthur (1981) in the relationship between Rob and Leo mirroring Arthur and Hobson that is underdeveloped and seems tackled into the movie. Curiously, in Lovesick(1983) Moore's character also has an older figure that his character listen to and try to sort his problems.
Not a bad movie, but not good either.
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- Budget
- $15,100,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $26,080,861
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,742,458
- Dec 25, 1984
- Gross worldwide
- $26,080,861
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