Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 3
No consensus yet.
Release Date: Dec 17, 1982 Wide
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Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 3,799
We'd rather not speculate over how much of Best Friends is autobiographical. We'll just note that this story of a male-female screenwriting team was written by real-life married scenarists Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin. Lovers as well as collaborators, scriveners Richard Babson (Burt Reynolds) and Paula McCullen (Goldie Hawn) decide to make their union legal. Predictably enough, they discover that their relationship goes straight downhill after they say "I do." The stars are far less
Dec 17, 1982 Wide
Jan 20, 2004
Warner Home Video
All Critics (9) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (4) | DVD (3)
Honest, touching and funny. An underrated gem that deserves to be rediscovered.
An okay realistic family drama movie about marriage. If you ask me, it's too realistic, so much so that it's boring. Overall it's okay, though.
January 5, 2011Super Reviewer
It wasn't a comedy, and it wasn't quite a drama. It was more like one large depression spiral of how two people can ultimately make each other unhappy no matter what they do. The music, which was Oscar nominated, was so sappy and 80's tinted that it drove me bananas, and Burt Reynolds was not his usual self confident
August 8, 2010Super Reviewer
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