The story wouldn't work if it was made now. I really thought this was a made for TV movie and was surprised to read here that it was released in cinemas. I don't remember it.
It does bring back to me the attitudes in place at the time. Although even when the film was made it was a little old fashioned even then. It seemed very odd that the Tyler Moore housewife was depicted as 'boring' when the Lahti career woman seemed much more dull and less open to new ideas and epxeriences. The housewife was active vibrant and had opinions on art etc while the career woman was single minded.
I don't know if it was deliberate but in actuality the career woman was confused and needy with an addictive personality, and the housewife was balanced and in control. Later the housewife suggests she wasn't independent enough - and yet it looked to me as though she was not only independent but supporting her whole family without realising it!! I agree with another comment - this would have been more interesting if the husband had lived and we had seen how this resolved under those circumstances.
I would hope that he would have been kicked into touch by both women. But I suspect the wife would have ended up with the best friend and the husband with the career woman and the wife would have lived happily ever after and the husband and career woman would have struggled along for a few years and then divorced.
Was this supposed to be a comedy? It didn't make me laugh at all.
It does bring back to me the attitudes in place at the time. Although even when the film was made it was a little old fashioned even then. It seemed very odd that the Tyler Moore housewife was depicted as 'boring' when the Lahti career woman seemed much more dull and less open to new ideas and epxeriences. The housewife was active vibrant and had opinions on art etc while the career woman was single minded.
I don't know if it was deliberate but in actuality the career woman was confused and needy with an addictive personality, and the housewife was balanced and in control. Later the housewife suggests she wasn't independent enough - and yet it looked to me as though she was not only independent but supporting her whole family without realising it!! I agree with another comment - this would have been more interesting if the husband had lived and we had seen how this resolved under those circumstances.
I would hope that he would have been kicked into touch by both women. But I suspect the wife would have ended up with the best friend and the husband with the career woman and the wife would have lived happily ever after and the husband and career woman would have struggled along for a few years and then divorced.
Was this supposed to be a comedy? It didn't make me laugh at all.