That's Life!

1986
PG-13
1h 42m

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6.0/10

1.9K

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A wealthy yet depressed architect and his sympathetic wife strive to conquer their life issues in anticipation of Harvey Fairchild's 60th birthday party.

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Harvey, a wealthy yet depressed architect and his sympathetic wife strive to conquer their life issues in anticipation of his 60th birthday party.Harvey, a wealthy yet depressed architect and his sympathetic wife strive to conquer their life issues in anticipation of his 60th birthday party.Harvey, a wealthy yet depressed architect and his sympathetic wife strive to conquer their life issues in anticipation of his 60th birthday party.

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IMDb RATING

6.0/10

1.9K

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See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 5 nominations total

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Trivia
The movie was shot in the Malibu beachside home of writer and director Blake Edwards and wife Dame Julie Andrews.

Goofs
Microphone shadow visible during party scene in the tent.

Quotes
Dr. Keith Romanis: Well, Harv.
Harvey Fairchild: Yeah?
Dr. Keith Romanis: Your heart is strong. There's absolutely nothing wrong with you physically whatsoever.
Harvey Fairchild: There's nothing wrong with me?
Dr. Keith Romanis: No. You're in a great shape.
Harvey Fairchild: Uh, I'm in great shape? Keith, did you ever hear the story about the fighter that was losing badly, you know, to the other guy? He's getting the hell kicked out of him and he comes back to his corner between rounds, and his manager says, "Keep up the good work, kid, because the other guy isn't laying a glove on you." And the fighter says, "Then you better keep your eye on the referee, because somebody is kicking the shit out of me." What the hell do you mean, nothing's wrong with me?
Dr. Keith Romanis: You're kicking the shit out of yourself, Harv.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Touch and Go/'Night, Mother/Blue Velvet/Where the River Runs Black (1986)

Soundtracks
Life in a Looking Glass
Music by Henry Mancini
Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
Performed by Tony Bennett
Courtesy of CBS Records

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Featured review

That's Art, Too

The part of Gillian, which Julie Andrews portrayed in "That's Life," gave me a queasy feeling: here was a character who was suffering from a possible career-threatening throat ailment. The film was made in 1986.

In real life, ten years later, Andrews would be experiencing a like situation, and two years thereafter awaiting results of a throat operation with parallel consequences.

This was not unlike a similar feeling I got when Elizabeth Taylor underwent her well-publicized brain operation in 1997. I vividly recalled her 1959 role of Catherine in "Suddenly Last Summer," in which the crux of that script was built around Catherine's receiving a brain operation.

As fine as both of those performances were, the art vs. life aspects were equally as impressive, and unnerving.