by Eleanor Mannikka
synopsis
Tom Christo (Griffin Dunne) is a New York TV writer-director in a dead-end marriage to Leslie (Blanche Baker). He meets the intriguing Marty Fenton (Marissa Chibas), a research scientist, when she attends a party Tom and his wife give at their home. Even though there is an initial attraction between Tom and Marty, their eventual pairing takes a long time to evolve as each have their own partners (Marty has a boyfriend) and first must go through separation and a series of disastrously failed blind dates. Although slow in developing and stereotypical enough to register as banal, the storyline is greatly enhanced by the interpretations of the two leads.
characteristics
- Crumbling Marriages
- Research
- Relations
- Romance
- Romantic
- Television
- On-the-road
- TV
- Marriage-problems
- Courtship
- Conversation
- Director
- Love
- Marital-problems
- Coming-of-age
