Movie Info

Until Boogie Nights, this film had stood for almost two decades as the best performance Burt Reynolds had ever given. In a criminal oversight, ...(read more...) he was denied an Oscar nomination, perhaps because it came in the middle of his action-movie winning streak. Directed by Alan Pakula from a script by James L. Brooks, the film cast Reynolds as a newly divorced man struggling to cope with single life in the city. But a blind date (initially misconstrued by the woman as a mugging) leads to renewed hope in romance when he and his new lady friend (Jill Clayburgh) actually seem right for each other. But before he can make a commitment, his flighty ex-wife (Candice Bergen) bounces back into his life to make him miserable all over again with her flirtatious indecisiveness. Wonderfully acted and observed; a highpoint is Bergen's attempt (as the world's least talented singer-songwriter) to seduce Reynolds with one of her off-key tunes. --Marshall Fine

Director: Alan J. Pakula

MPAA: R

Running Time: 105 min.

Release Date: Oct 05, 1979

Cast: Austin Pendleton, Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Charles Kimbrough, Frances Sternhagen, Jay O Sanders, Jill Clayburgh, Macintyre Dixon, Mary Kay Place, Richard Whiting