Best Friends

1982
PG
1h 56m

IMDb RATING

5.5/10

3.3K

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Goldie Hawn and Burt Reynolds in Best Friends (1982)

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.

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Comedy Drama Romance

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.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.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.

Director
- Norman Jewison
Writers
- Valerie Curtin
- Barry Levinson
Stars

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IMDb RATING

5.5/10

3.3K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Norman Jewison
Writers
- Valerie Curtin
- Barry Levinson
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 2 nominations total

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Trivia
Burt Reynolds once said of his co-star Goldie Hawn in this movie: "Goldie Hawn and I had been talking for five years about doing a movie together. She's someone who makes me laugh. Really laugh. I knew her when she was a dumb blonde and even then she was one of the smartest people I knew" and "We'd meet for dinner and compare notes on the scripts we'd read and liked, but we always ran up against the same problem. The male role always dominated the female character or vice versa. They didn't seem to be writing the kind of give-and-take comedies that Tracy and Hepburn [Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn] or Cary Grant and Jean Arthur used to do."

Goofs
Goldie Hawn mentions Teresa Wright not being on the train in Since You Went Away (1944). It was Jennifer Jones, not Wright.

Quotes
Paula McCullen: Breasts too large, Richard? Every female character you create has breasts too large.
Richard Babson: Mmm... but I make them suffer for it.

Alternate versions
ABC edited 13 minutes from this film for its 1986 network television premiere.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Dueling Critics (1983)

Soundtracks
How Do You Keep The Music Playing?
Performed by Patti Austin and James Ingram
Music by Michel Legrand
Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
Produced by Johnny Mandel
Arranged by Greg Phillinganes & Johnny Mandel

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Featured review

5/10

An obvious often painful watch

I saw "Best Friends" in the theater (Bellerose, NY) and I've seen it several times since. I don't like it that much. "Best Friends" does the impossible. It makes two of the most likable stars ever, Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn, and makes them almost unlikable. Burt and Goldie have there moments, the movie does as well, but the weak script is just another '70s anti-marriage movie. Will marriage ruin their relationship? Blah, blah blah. By the time this movie came out, there had already been a bunch of movies like this. There are a handful of laughs in this movie but after an hour of so I just wanted "Best Friends" to end.