- Loving Couples (1980 film)
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The plot offers a comic spin on
adultery . When Greg crashes hissports 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, scatterbrainedtelevision 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 sameAcapulco resort.Production notes
The scenes in
Mexico actually were shot inSan Diego, California , and the hotel interiors were filmed at theAmbassador Hotel onWilshire Boulevard inLos 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 starringShirley Maclaine that dealt with the subject of marital infidelity.Principal cast
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Shirley MacLaine ..... Evelyn
*James Coburn ..... Walter
*Susan Sarandon ..... Stephanie
*Stephen Collins ..... Greg
*Sally Kellerman ..... Mrs. LiggettPrincipal 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 bySyreeta
*"I'll Make It with Your Love," lyrics by Gimbel, music by Karlin, performed byBilly Preston
*"Take Me Away," lyrics byDean Pitchford , music by Karlin, performed byThe 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 byJermaine 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] ]
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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] ]References
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