While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced British secretary, Patricia, wherever they go. First their cars collide. Then they smash into one another on a ski slope, each breaking a leg. In between numerous quarrels, the two develop lust and love. They hastily marry, but the disagreements continue. Patricia decides to leave, so Adam decides to fake a suicide. They lose and find each other, again and again.
Acting
Glenda Jackson elevates every absurd line with sheer commitment.
Writing
The fake suicide plot point is genuinely deranged choices.
Director
Melvin Frank
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Glenda Jackson won her second Oscar right before this, making her 'slumming it in a rom-com' era officially iconic.
This bombed so hard it basically killed the 'two awful people find love' subgenre until the 2000s revived it.
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