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Director:

Peter Masterson

Writer:

Bill Bozzone (written by)

Contact:

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Release Date:

23 November 1988 (USA) more

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance more

Plot:

Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident... more | add synopsis

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Gene Hackman ... Floyd

Teri Garr ... Louise Taylor
Burgess Meredith ... The General

Elias Koteas ... Jimmy

Kevin Cooney ... Charlie O'Donnell
David Doty ... Virgil

Gil Glasgow ... Baytch
Becky Ann Baker ... Dorothy (as Becky Gelke)
Marietta Marich ... Lois

Alexandra Masterson ... Annie Gorman (as Lexie Masterson)
William Larsen ... Jack Hill
Mitchell Gossett ... Marone
Mark Walters ... Johnny Gorman
Ben Jones ... Digby
Ed Geldart ... Man #1
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Additional Details

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono


Fun Stuff

Quotes:

The General: There are no real men around anymore, goddamit. more

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Night Game (1989) more

Soundtrack:

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3 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Busty Garr, 18 May 2006
6/10
Author: RARubin from United States

Lately I've been on a Gene Hackman 1980's kick. Hoosiers, many folks think is the best portrayal of a sports coach, maybe the best sports film ever made. Twice in a Lifetime is a middle-aged love story of betrayal in a blue-collar family and it ranks up there as the best of Hackman's work. Then there is a less successful film, Full Moon in Blue Water.

No one in the movies in the last thirty years portrays the middle-age everyman, the tough, and hard working, Joe like Hackman. He's certainly not a romantic idol, but he is manly enough to woe Ann Margaret in Once in a Lifetime and Teri Garr in Water. In addition, Garr is very good as a faded honky-tonk town girl with widower, Hackman in her sights. The trouble, Hack is still in love with his missing spouse. He spends most of his days watching old home movies of the lost wife while his saloon business goes to pieces. Also, he must deal with a stroke victim, the father-in-law, Burgesss Meredith, the quintessential old coot.

Somehow the viewer will not believe that a capable character like Hack would let a business go to sleazy Real Estate snakes without a bar brawl. The idea that Hack would moon about the ex for a year while busty Garr is all over him; well, it doesn't add up.

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