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The Last Married Couple in America
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Wikipedia article
'The Last Married Couple in America' is a 1980 comedy film released in the US.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121103194350/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/28349/The-Last-Married-Couple-in-America/overview?scp=1&sq=the%20last%20married%20couple%20in%20america&st=cse The New York Times]
It was directed by Gilbert Cates, whose most successful film 'Oh, God! Book II', was released in the same year. The film starred George Segal and Natalie Wood as a California couple in the late 1970s struggling to maintain their "happily married" status as all their friends begin to get divorces and seem to be caught up in the decadence of the sexual revolution and the "ME" era. This is the last completed theatrical release Natalie Wood made before her death in 1981.
Plot
Life is going along smoothly for Jeff and Mari Thompson but not for any other couple they know, or so it seems. Everyone they know is getting divorced.
Their life is disrupted when Mari's old college friend, Barbara, comes into it and begins a fling with Jeff, which causes Mari to contemplate an affair of her own.
Music
The theme song to this film is "We Could Have It All," sung by Maureen McGovern. The song became a hit on the adult contemporary charts of Canada (#6)[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0157&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=2vo7nds4pse2i889njf2aru315 Collectionscanada.gc.ca] and the U.S. (#16). It was written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel.
Cast
*George Segal as Jeff Thompson
*Natalie Wood as Mari Thompson
*Richard Benjamin as Marv
*Valerie Harper as Barbara
*Bob Dishy as Howard
*Arlene Golonka as Sally
*Dom DeLuise as Walter
*Allan Arbus as Al
*Priscilla Barnes as Helena
*Catherine Hickland as Rebecca
*Sondra Currie as Lainy
*Oliver Clark as Max Dryden
Box office
Upon release, the film was disappointing at the box office.[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/last_married_couple_in_america/ Rotten Tomatoes]
References
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