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15 February 1980 (Australia) moreTagline:
Phil Potter would like to straighten out his life...One way, or the other.Plot:
A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This effects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 6 nominations moreUser Comments:
Good, but perhaps not quite good enough moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Burt Reynolds | ... | Phil Potter | |
| Jill Clayburgh | ... | Marilyn Holmberg | |
| Candice Bergen | ... | Jessica Potter | |
| Charles Durning | ... | Michael (Mickey) Potter | |
| Frances Sternhagen | ... | Marva Potter | |
| Austin Pendleton | ... | Paul | |
| Mary Kay Place | ... | Marie | |
| MacIntyre Dixon | ... | Dan Ryan | |
| Jay O. Sanders | ... | Larry (as Jay Sanders) | |
| Charles Kimbrough | ... | Salesman | |
| Richard Whiting | ... | Everett | |
| Alfie Wise | ... | Workshop Member | |
| Wallace Shawn | ... | Workshop Member | |
| Sturgis Warner | ... | John Morganson | |
| Mary Catherine Wright | ... | Student 1 (as Mary C. Wright) |
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Iceland:L | Australia:M | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Norway:16 | USA:R | UK:AA (original rating) | UK:15 (re-rating) (1987)Filming Locations:
Boston Garden - 150 Causeway Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USAFun Stuff
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One of the locations was an actual apartment building in New York City. Tenants were upset because they were forbidden from entering or leaving their apartments while scenes were shot in the hallway. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: As Jessica and Phil prepare to go to bed, he slips off underwear below bottom frame line. But as shot continues, actor Burt Reynolds is clearly wearing abbreviated white undergarment. moreQuotes:
Marilyn Holmberg: What do you want?Phil Potter: I want us to live together. I want us to get married. I want us to have children together. I want us to put our teeth in the same cup. I want us buried together in a family plot with one headstone. What do you want?
Marilyn Holmberg: I want a separate cup for my teeth.
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It's part of movie lore that Burt Reynolds' career hit the toilet the moment he decided to do Stroker Ace instead of Terms of Endearment, but what people forget is that his previous collaboration with James L. Brooks, on the Alan J. Pakula-directed Starting Over, didn't exactly set the box-office on fire. At the time industry pundits claimed it was because he shaved his 'tache for the film (no, really) but in retrospect it's probably more because this often feels a bit like a superior Lifetime TV movie, the kind of film you won't mind watching if it's on and you have nothing better to do but which you wouldn't actively seek out. There are good moments and good performances (both Candice Bergen, who delivers a trio of memorably awful songs with unashamed intentional - incompetence and Jill Clayburgh were Oscar nominated as the ex-wife and new woman in unwilling divorcée Reynolds' life, while Charles Durning is on good understated form as his psychiatrist brother), but for all the care with which its made it just never quite catches fire.