Loving Couples (1980 film)

Loving Couples (1980 film)

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The plot offers a comic spin on adultery. When Greg crashes his sports car, doctor Evelyn comes to his rescue, and the two soon are engaged in an affair. Evelyn's workaholic husband learns about it from Greg's live-in girlfriend, scatterbrained television weather girl Stephanie, and the two begin to engage in a dalliance of their own. Complications arise when the two couples plan a clandestine weekend getaway at the same Acapulco resort.

Production notes

The scenes in Mexico actually were shot in San Diego, California, and the hotel interiors were filmed at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.

The film grossed $2,806,659 in the US.

Together with "A Change of Seasons", the film was one of two 1980 20th Century Fox releases starring Shirley Maclaine that dealt with the subject of marital infidelity.

Principal cast

*Shirley MacLaine ..... Evelyn
*James Coburn ..... Walter
*Susan Sarandon ..... Stephanie
*Stephen Collins ..... Greg
*Sally Kellerman ..... Mrs. Liggett

Principal production credits

*Executive Producer ..... David Susskind
*Original Music ..... Fred Karlin
*Cinematography ..... Philip H. Lathrop
*Costume Design ..... Theoni V. Aldredge, Arnold Scaasi

oundtrack

*"And So It Begins," lyrics by Norman Gimbel, music by Fred Karlin, performed by Syreeta
*"I'll Make It with Your Love," lyrics by Gimbel, music by Karlin, performed by Billy Preston
*"Take Me Away," lyrics by Dean Pitchford, music by Karlin, performed by The Temptations
*"There's More Where That Came From," lyrics by Pitchford, music by Karklin, performed by The Temptations
*"Turn Up the Music," lyrics by Pitchford, music by Karlin, performed by Syreeta
*"Bass Odyssey," lyrics and music by Gregory Wright, performed by Jermaine Jackson

Critical reception

In her review in the "New York Times", Janet Maslin called the film "a flat, lifeless movie . . . about as uneventful and unromantic as a romantic comedy can be" and added, "it never creates the impression that any of the lovers much care about one another, or even that they're people at all." [ [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=990CE1DE1538F937A15753C1A966948260 "New York Times" review] ]

Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" called it "a dumb remake of a very old idea that has been done so much better so many times before, that this version is wretchedly unnecessary . . . the whole project smells like high-gloss sitcom." [ [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19801031/REVIEWS/10310301/1023 "Chicago Sun-Times" review] ]

"Variety" opined, "Direction by Jack Smight is assured and never lags. MacLaine is in top form, sassy and sweet in turn. Coburn delivers a casually effective light comedy performance. Sarandon is topnotch." [ [http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117792800.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0 "Variety" review] ]

"Time Out New York" says it "subscribes to conventions as old as the hills and twice as rocky, burying any hints of feminist awareness beneath the routines of macho courtship. Faced with direction paced at a lethargic crawl and dialogue of inconceivable banality, the cast respond with performances of glazed charm." [ [http://www.timeout.com/film/newyork/reviews/80867/Loving_Couples.html "Time Out New York" review] ]

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