Making Love

Zach is a successful Los Angeles doctor, and Claire is a television executive. After eight years of marriage, the couple decides to have a child, but their comfortable life begins to come apart when Zach meets Bart, a writer, and confronts an attraction to other men that he had long kept hidden. As Zach spends more time away from home, Claire grows convinced that another woman is involved. The rift between them plays out against the surface of an outwardly ideal LA life. The film stars Michael Ontkean as Zach, Kate Jackson as Claire and Harry Hamlin as Bart, with Wendy Hiller, Arthur Hill and Nancy Olson in supporting roles. Arthur Hiller directed from a screenplay by Barry Sandler, and Alan J. Adler and Daniel Melnick produced. It was Hiller's tenth film as director of seventeen, following Author! Author! and preceding The Lonely Guy. Made for a budget of about 14 million dollars, it took in roughly 12 million worldwide, a modest return. On IMDb it holds a 6.9 rating from about 3,200 votes, and on TMDB it also stands at 6.9, from a much smaller number of votes; the two audiences are closely aligned.