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Short description
Ivan Travalian is a Broadway playwright juggling two crises at once. His new play is heading toward its premiere, but the production keeps running into trouble, and at the same time his wife Gloria is leaving him. She goes, and he is left to raise five children on his own: his own son plus the four children from her earlier marriages. An actress cast in his play, Alice Detroit, becomes a source of comfort and something more as he tries to hold his household and his work together.
Arthur Hiller directed the film, the ninth of the seventeen features he made in chronological order, arriving between The In-Laws and Making Love. Israel Horovitz wrote the screenplay, and Irwin Winkler produced it for 20th Century Fox. Al Pacino plays Ivan, with Dyan Cannon as Alice, Tuesday Weld as Gloria, and Bob Dishy, Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding among the credited cast of thirty-nine.
Released in June 1982, the film runs 110 minutes and mixes comedy, drama and romance. It took in about 13 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.2 out of 10 from roughly 6,100 votes, and on TMDB 6 out of 10 from about 121 votes, indicating a modest but persistent level of interest rather than wide acclaim.
What's left behind the scenes
- Israel Horovitz wrote the screenplay based on his own experience raising three children as a single parent.
- It took three months to film the scene at the fountain near the “Plaza Hotel.” Initially, the scene was rewritten, so the planned filming had to be postponed. Then, rain and a blizzard intervened. By the time the scene was finally filmed, it was no longer autumn but winter, so the scene had to be rewritten again.
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