A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
- Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 6 wins & 18 nominations total
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- (as Pat Quinn)
- Cabbie
- (as Chico Martinez)
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- TriviaDr. Penelope Russianoff, who plays Erica (Jill Clayburgh)'s therapist Tanya, was an actual practicing psychologist. The counseling sessions were filmed in her actual penthouse apartment on West 86th Street in New York, where she saw her patients. She worked for two and a half days and was paid US $2500. She was cast after having been recommended to director Paul Mazursky by "Girlfriends" (1978) director Claudia Weill. Russianoff said that she improvised most of her dialogue, which was based on the type of therapy she gave her patients. After the movie was launched, Russianoff became a mini-celebrity. She said the role gave her "instant celebrity-hood," being recognized on the streets of New York, where she signed autographs, and got a number of new clients. She wrote several self-help books in the 1980s, including "Why Do I Think I Am Nothing Without a Man?" (1988), a book first published about a decade after this film, but with a title and subject matter that were reflective of this picture.
- GoofsThe boom is clearly visible for several seconds during the art gallery scene.
- Quotes
[first lines]
[Martin and Erica are jogging along the river]
Martin: Jesus Christ! Look at this! My sneaker's ruined!
Erica: They're only $35.
[Erica takes Martin's shoe and cleans it off for him]
Martin: Fucking city's turning into one big pile of DOG SHIT!
[shouting at passing traffic]
Martin: Come on out and take a crap on me--everybody else is. Fuck!
[Martin lights a cigarette]
Erica: ...been jogging for 2 1/2 miles - you're giving yourself lung cancer.
Martin: I'll tell you something, Erica: the longer I'm married to you, the more you sound like my mother.
Erica: Clean your own sneaker.
[throws shoe at Martin]
Martin: I think you wanted me to step in it.
Erica: [laughing] You're going crazy, Martin.
Martin: I am?
Erica: [laughing] Yes.
[Martin tosses his shoe over his shoulder into the river. Erica jogs away, and Martin jogs after]
- Crazy creditsFor Betsy
- SoundtracksSwan Lake, Op.20
(1877) (uncredited)
Written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Excerpts danced by Jill Clayburgh
I agree with the poster that said Jill Clayburgh doesn't give much. Everything is said in a matter-of-fact fashion with very little emotion. I love the scene where she is getting dressed after having had sex with Alan Bates (yummy in this movie, BTW), she acts as though she just had a pedicure or something.
I watched the chopped up WE channel version, so I might have missed something, but it was all very emotionless.
I did think it was really dated. How could it not be?
- mcorner
- Oct 6, 2004
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- Gross US & Canada
- $24,000,000