Best Friends
by Norman Jewison
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Actor: Audra Lindley, Barnard Hughes, Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn, Jessica TandyDirector: Norman Jewison
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-20
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Best Friends
Movie Review: An Endearingly Funny Romp...
Summary: 5 Stars
Best Friends is an old favorite of mine. I recall watching it for the first time many years ago - and then I watched it whenever it came on Cable TV. Then I got a VHS copy - and you know what has happened to that particular technology.
So, of course, I had to order a DVD. And I enjoyed watching it again.
It's your basic, predictable love story - best friends end up romantically linked and eventually married. But Paula (Goldie Hawn) is afraid to take that step. She is completely sure that marriage will totally ruin a good thing. Richard (Burt Reynolds) persuades her to do it anyway. After all, they've lived together for several years; they are co-writers (of screenplays); and they just bought a big beautiful house in LA.
They marry just before embarking on a journey to see her parents in upstate NY and his in Virginia.
Traveling by train, they are annoyed and cramped by the claustrophobic quarters. Arriving at a snowy destination, they manage to make it through a few days with her parents before driving to see his.
Follow this couple through funny, complicated, and emotional events as they attempt to turn what seemed like a winning partnership into something more - and seem to be failing miserably.
Will their marriage fall apart before it even begins? And what will happen to their previously successful writing partnership?
A fun, light-hearted movie about a serious issue.
Summary of Best Friends
After five successful years of living and working together, a couple decide to get married. But what they don't count on is how to survive the honeymoon -- especially one that involves meeting each other's family.Art imitates life in this romantic comedy, which casts Reynolds and Hawn as a successful Hollywood screenwriting team. Their harmonious working and romantic relationship goes south when they decide to get married after years of living together. Written by and based on the lives of writers Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin, the film is a decidedly bittersweet affair: after all, Levinson and Curtin got married, then divorced, just like the characters in the movie. Consequently, there's less real humor than kidding as the relationship develops cracks, chinks, and leaks, before foundering altogether. Still, Reynolds and Hawn have a likable chemistry because neither is trying too hard. Watch for a particularly funny and crass cameo by Ron Silver, as a big-shot director they wind up working for. --Marshall Fine
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