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Synopsis: Erica is unmarried only temporarily in that her successful, wealthy husband of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale's. The film shows Erica coming to terms with the break-up while revising her opinions of herself, redefining that self in its own right rather than as an extension of somebody else's personality, and finally going out with another man. Erica refuses to drop everything for Saul, an abstract expressionist painter, simply out of love for him because he expects her to. It is not so much loneliness that is her problem, and the problems that men, flitting around this newly "available" woman like moths round a flame, bring to her sense of independence.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Paul Mazursky
Production: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
R
Year:
1978
124 min
840 Views


- How can you tell?

It's in your eyes. You can tell

everything in a woman's eyes.

Oh. Can you tell

everything in a man's eyes?

Men cover it up.

Women lay it all on the line.

Right there in the old eyes.

What do you see

in my eyes, Charlie?

- Want me to be honest?

- Yeah.

You're not gettin' enough.

I think you ought to have

your eyes examined.

Oh, no.

No, you're not really satisfied.

I mean, your old man's

okay and all that, but, uh...

underneath it all

you're frustrated.

Go paint a still life, Charlie.

- You ever had an affair?

- It's none of your business.

Oh, man.

What a shame. What a waste!

A woman as beautiful as you should

be tasting a little variety in life.

Imagine if all you ever ate was apples?

Imagine never tasting

a peach or a pear? Apapaya?

Huh? No way, babe.

Same thing with sex.

I'm allergic to papayas, Charlie.

How about a nice, fresh guava? Huh?

- Huh?

- Leave me alone.

- Don't you ever think about

anything else, Charlie?

- Yeah, like what?

Ohh, there's

literature and ballet...

- and theater and dance...

- Hey, hey, hey, Erica.

- And architecture

- Erica. Hey, listen.

There's work, there's food,

and there's sex.

That's the whole ball game.

Rowan Gallery.

Yeah. Sure.

Yeah. I'll meet you.

Um, 15 minutes.

Okay, honey. Bye.

Might I inquire

as to who "honey" is?

My husband.

I'm meeting him for lunch.

Well...

- think I'll hit the streets for awhile.

- Bye, Charlie.

- Hi.

- Is this together?

Uh, yeah, he's paying for me.

That'll be $3.95.

- Thank you.

- Thanks.

Excuse me.

Mmm, I wanted to talk to you

about something.

I think that if we're gonna go

to the island this summer...

that we really ought

to get on it right away.

How would you feel about sharing a place

with Sue and Harold?

- How's the market?

- Huh?

Just wanted to see if you

were paying any attention to me.

- You want to share a place

with Sue and Harold.

- Think you could handle it?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

Well, I'll talk to Sue, and maybe the four

of us could drive out in a couple of weeks.

We really should get on it right away.

Jesus, it's gonna be even

more expensive this year.

You know, if we do take a place...

we're gonna have to have

my club up there.

I could just see us,

all lying in the sun, blabbing away.

I mean, we would

We talk. We really do.

I love our meetings.

They're so I don't know.

I just love them.

It's sort of like

a continuing story, you know.

It's part Mary Hartman

and part Ingmar Bergman.

L I love the women.

Marty. Marty. Come on.

What is it, honey?

What's the matter?

What is it?

- ThWhat? Tell me!

- I'm in love with somebody else.

I've been seeing another woman...

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Paul Mazursky

Irwin Lawrence "Paul" Mazursky (April 25, 1930 – June 30, 2014) was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Known for his dramatic comedies that often dealt with modern social issues, he was nominated for five Academy Awards: three times for Best Original Screenplay, once for Best Adapted Screenplay, and once for Best Picture for An Unmarried Woman (1978). Other films written and directed by Mazursky include Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Blume in Love (1973), Harry and Tonto (1974), Moscow on the Hudson (1984), and Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986). more…

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