Best Friends

US (1982): Comedy/Drama/Romance

Art imitates life in this romantic comedy, which casts Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn as a successful Hollywood screenwriting team. Their harmonious working and romantic relationship goes south when they decide to get married after years of living together. Written by and based on the lives of writers Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin, the film is a decidedly bittersweet affair: after all, Levinson and Curtin got married, then divorced, just like the characters in the movie. Consequently, there's less real humor than kidding as the relationship develops cracks, chinks, and leaks, before foundering altogether. Still, Reynolds and Hawn have a likable chemistry because neither is trying too hard. Norman Jewison directs for Timberlane-Warner Bros. The cast also features Jessica Tandy, Barnard Hughes, Audra Lindley and Keenan Wynn. Watch for a particularly funny and crass cameo by Ron Silver, as a big-shot director they wind up working for. (Marshall Fine, Amazon.com)

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