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Making Love (1982)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:5
Rotten:11
Average Rating:4.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Zack and Claire, an upwardly mobile couple, have been married for 8 years. As far as Claire's concerned, they've been very happy times. But when her husband begins an extra-marital affair with a... Zack and Claire, an upwardly mobile couple, have been married for 8 years. As far as Claire's concerned, they've been very happy times. But when her husband begins an extra-marital affair with a gay writer, Claire realizes she and Zack have been living a lie all this time. [More]
Starring: Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Wendy Hiller
Starring: Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Wendy Hiller
Director: Arthur Hiller
Director: Arthur Hiller
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Reviews for Making Love
On its own baby-step terms, and despite its moneyed vanilla-himbo vision of gay masculinity and desire, Making Love plays now as a bemusing anachronism but not an insulting or self-inflating one.
This is a three-handkerchief movie, all right, but for the nose. It stinks.
This movie has some of the worst dialogue one can imagine: She: 'What about passion?' He: 'What about support?' She: 'What about betrayal?'
Once the cat is out of the bag, the movie turns rip-roaring awful in an entirely enjoyable way.
Making Love salutes the philosophy of different strokes for different folks.
Although it was a brave movie at the time, it's got less power than the average soap opera these days.
Noble attempt at mainstream gay love story almost works due to Barry Sandler's script.
Unfortunately, Hiller doesn't command the intensity of feeling that might have made it emotionally valid, and he doesn't have the awareness of the cultural forces at work in his film that might have made it intellectually respectable.
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