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You don't always see this - Spoiler Alert


I love the way the movie portrays the active sex life of a middle-aged couple. They're always sneaking off to be together and when they're tempted, they resist. In most movies today, one or the other would succumb and it would be seen as perfectly normal and acceptable.

In this movie, despite their closeness, love, and desire for each other, they almost let jealousy, mistrust, and outside forces derail their solid relationship.


Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]

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Is this the movie where Debbie Reynolds does some grass-skirted topless dance for her husband? I remember seeing her in a movie in the late Sixties or very early Seventies where she did that, and it was very sexy.

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Yes this is the one.

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Thanks.

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Debbie was only 35/36 when she made this, still a few years shy of middle age. She was only 19 years older than the actor playing her son who was 17 and said to be 15 which I did not believe. James Garner was on the young side of middle age, just over 40.

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