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Master of Broadway comedy Neil Simon adapted his hit play about a conservative
young lawyer and his off-the-wall bride for this warm film classic.
Robert
Redford is Mister Straight. Jane Fonda is his new wife, who dedicates her life
to the pursuit of fun. As the ecstasy of the honeymoon gives way to the reality
of setting up housekeeping in a five-flight walk-up, the harmony of marriage
turns to comical discord.
The mother-in-law complains meekly. The middle-aged
lothario upstairs flirts. Joy turns to anguish.
There is little doubt that the
young people will kiss and make up by the end of the picture, just as there’s
little doubt that the mother and the neighbor will find each other. Fonda and
Redford make a wonderfully successful comedy team.
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