After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.
Acting
Reynolds ditches the mustache AND the bravado. Vulnerable king.
Writing
Dan Wakefield's script treats male feelings like they're allowed to exist.
Direction
Pakula finds poetry in supermarkets and singles bars.
Director
Alan J. Pakula
Burt Reynolds
Phil Potter
Jill Clayburgh
Marilyn Holmburg
Candice Bergen
Jessica Potter
Charles Durning
Michael "Mickey" Potter
Frances Sternhagen
Marva Potter
Austin Pendleton
Paul
Mary Kay Place
Marie
MacIntyre Dixon
Dan Ryan
Jay O. Sanders
Larry
Charles Kimbrough
Salesman
Alfie Wise
Workshop Member
Wallace Shawn
Workshop Member
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Candice Bergen did her own singing and released an actual album from this role.
This was one of the first mainstream films to take divorced men's emotional lives seriously—part of a brief 70s window before Reagan masculinity closed it.
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