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Best Friends

1982 · 116 min

A warm, wry look at how marriage complicates a comfortable partnership, with laughs and squirms in equal measure.

Tagline
What a present for Christmas
Overview
When a professional couple, who have lived and worked together for many years, finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpected difficulties. They soon find that being married is often quite different from being "best friends."

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • family
  • identity
  • work
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
  • road trip
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance6
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy, romance
Directed by
Norman Jewison
Written by
Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson
Starring
Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn, Jessica Tandy, Barnard Hughes, Audra Lindley, Keenan Wynn, Ron Silver, Richard Libertini
Music
Michel Legrand
Cinematography
Jordan Cronenweth
Runtime
116 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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