After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
Acting
Finney and Keaton demolish each other beautifully.
Direction
Parker turns domestic spaces into battlefields.
Writing
Bo Goldman's script spares nobody, especially not you.
Director
Alan Parker
Albert Finney
George Dunlap
Diane Keaton
Faith Dunlap
Karen Allen
Sandy
Peter Weller
Frank Henderson
Dana Hill
Sherry Dunlap
Viveka Davis
Jill Dunlap
Tracey Gold
Marianne Dunlap
Tina Yothers
Molly Dunlap
George Murdock
French DeVoe
Leora Dana
Charlotte DeVoe
O-Lan Jones
Countergirl
Irving Metzman
Howard Katz aka Sheldon Katz
David Landsberg
Scott Gruber
Jeremy Schoenberg
Timmy
Kenneth Kimmins
Maitre D'
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dana Hill, who played daughter Sherry, was actually 17 but looked younger; she died tragically young at 32 from diabetes complications.
The title comes from a golf expression meaning an impossible shot—Parker saw marriage itself as that doomed attempt.
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