Movie Reviews for Just Between Friends

Just Between Friends

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Movie Reviews of Just Between Friends

Movie Review: Sweet Movie!!
Summary: 5 Stars

I loved this movie! I'm only 12, but I thought it was so sweet! Ms. Moore went from Laura Petrie/Mary Richards image, to Beth Jarret, then back to Laura. I thought it was so mean of the husband to cheat on such a sweet, loyal, and devoted lady. The only thing about this movie was that Holly (Mary Tyler Moore) looked so much older than her husband in the movie!!! Was she supposed to be younger than she actually was? Mary Tyler Moore is my favorite actress, so maybe that is why I like this movie, but I really did think it was so cute!!! And in the end...(sorry if this spoils it) does Harry go with Holly? It doesn't make it clear...not to me anyhow.

Movie Review: A classic great movie
Summary: 5 Stars

I haven't seen this movie in years and like it just as much now as I did then. It is a really good movie and I think it is a classic. Mary Tyler Moore and Christine Lahti are great together and I have always liked Sam Waterston.

Movie Review: Mary Tyler Moore is Superb
Summary: 4 Stars

Boy, this movie takes place in the 80's and at first you must get over how dated it is. The clothes are hilarious but not as much as the big hairstyles. Hilarious. But move beyond the opening drawn out areobics class and a very entertaining weepy drama will draw you in.

Mary Tyler Moore, a housewife meets Christine Lahti, a newsreporter in an aerobics class and they form an instant bond both not having many female friends. Ms. Moore is happily married and lo and behold it ends up Ms. Lahti is having an affair with a married man who is Ms. Moore's husband.

How this drama plays out and how the plot develops is very well done and certainly character driven. The acting is superb all around but for me watching the movie 22 years after it was made I am most impressed with Mary Tyler Moore. If this situation happened today the people involved would most certainly be in different places and deal with things a little differently.

Mary Tyler Moore makes her somewhat timid housewife who yearns for more very believable and the journey of self discovery she embarks on is very well told. It also provides Ms. Moore wirth some excellent scenes. She truly becomes this character and her emotions are believably raw. She makes the otherwise datedness of this movie not an issue. Her character is timeless and you believe she could be from this generation and going through the same processes.

Give yourself a treat and enjoy this quality emotional drama.

Movie Review: A Cut Above What You'd Expect
Summary: 4 Stars

This film, made in 1986, is an enjoying flick. I don't agree that the musical score is overbearing or way out of date. It fits the time period well.

Moore and the rest of the cast do a fine job. I especially enjoyed Moore, as she channels the personality of Laura Petrie from the classic Dick Van Dyke show. Christine Lahti plays Sandy, a woman who has a bit more in common with Moore and her husband, played by Ted Danson, than she thinks. The dinner party where they all meet (together with a very young-looking Sam Waterson) is quite amusing. It's also fun to see Waterson play a character very much different from his very somber, deliberate role in 'Law & Order'.

Then tragedy strikes, and the two women confront each other in a new way.

(I also want to mention how attractive and fit Ms. Moore looked in this role. She was 50 when she made this film, and in her stint as an aerobics instructor, she looked 20 years younger.)

Overall, an enjoyable film.

Recommended.