Average Rating: 4.5/10
Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 3
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Release Date: Nov 22, 1978 Wide
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Based on Bernard Slade's Broadway play of the same name, this film is about George, a married New Jersey accountant (Alan Alda), and Doris, a housewife (Ellen Burstyn). The two accidentally meet in a Californian country inn in 1951. They have an affair, which they continue for the next 25 years, meeting only once a year for a weekend getaway at the same hotel. Through their long-running love affair, the audience witnesses the changes within America and its lifestyles over the course of a quarter
Nov 22, 1978 Wide
Apr 6, 2004
Universal Pictures
All Critics (9) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (3)
Well done filmed play absorbs us in the characters' lives.
It's funny, sad, unexpected and moving. Just like life and its relationships
An overlong, tiresome, excessively theatrical comedy, based on Bernard Slade's play, about a 25 year tryst of a married man and married woman (Ellen Burstyn and Alan Alda.
Satisfied neither to be honestly frivolous or sincerely ambitious, Same Time, Next Year winds up giving a bad name both to comedy and to drama.
What worked on the stage doesn't on film.
I saw 20 minutes from the middle of this on TV probably five years ago and thought "looks pretty good." I think they were the best 20 minutes of the movie. Overall, this one comes off like your average community theatre play, and it appears to have a lot of lines that would have worked better on stage. The problem
August 12, 2007Super Reviewer
ellen burstyn is an actress of almost limitless ability as she shows here.
April 8, 2007
Super Reviewer
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