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I haven't see this movie since I was 17...


and loved it more today than 38 years ago. I didn't understand it naturally, then. It still rings true and I got a look at the time I was a teen and the world was changing. These things are still happening - divorce, living together, just wanting to be loved, affairs and big weddings. Life is so much more jaded now and people aren't as serious about the things that matter. Great cast and I started looking up where everyone is now. I remember Michael Brandon as being such a hunk and Diane Keaton was absolutely gorgeous.

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Still entertaining, though I thought Diane Keaton looked like the puppet LambChop, and I suspect that she's had a nose job since this film. I thought Cloris Leachman looked great.

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Nose jobs - hahaha - don't get me started! CALISTA FLOCKHART and what does Harrison Ford see in her anyway...not to change the subject...

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I start every summer watching my 2 favorite movies from the era-"Good-bye Columbus" and "Lovers and Other Strangers". What memories they bring back!

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"Goodbye Columbus" would make a great double bill with this! Both are excellent and hilarious films about the pitfalls of marriage (and its even weaker alternatives).

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Really? I had the opposite reaction upon re-watching it today. When I saw it about 20 years ago I gave it three and a half stars out of four. I just watched it again and found it tedious and not much wittier than a mundane episode of "The Love Boat". New rating - **/****

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g_monte - I totally agree.

I'm watching this film for the first time in 42 years - I was 15 and this was the first R-rated movie I ever saw. My friend and I each boldly went up to the lady in the ticket booth and said, "One, please," and were thrilled to get in. We felt v. daring watching this at-the-time hip movie about "pre-marital sex" (an expression now thankfully extinct), which took advantage of the new permissiveness to show a couple in bed and include (one or two) four-letter words.

"Lovers..." now seems hopelessly dated, unfunny and inane. Times have changed for the better.

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I haven't seen this film since 1970 (when I was in high school) and remember enjoying it then, chiefly for all those great actors in it: Harry Guardino, Anne Meara, Anne Jackson, Gig Young, Cloris Leachman, Richard Castellano, Bob Dishy plus newcomers like Diane Keaton, Michael Brandon and Bonnie Bedelia. I have no idea how it will hold up today. Ironically, now that I'm a grown-up, this is exactly the kind of film I would absolutely avoid if it came out today, yet I had no problem going to see it with a group of friends in high school. (Granted, it was on a double bill with an action film called THE LAST GRENADE, which turned out to be pretty bad.)

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