Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 07/06/2004
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 104 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Humor
Distributor/Studio: MGM
Lovers and Other Strangers became a "sleeper" hit, based on a play by
Renée Taylor and
Joseph Bologna. The story is essentially a series of vignettes and anecdotes, unified by an impending marriage. Father of the bride
Hal (
Gig Young) has problems with his long-suffering mistress,
Cathy (
Anne Jackson), who spends much of the film sitting on the toilet, crying her eyes out;
Wilma (
Anne Meara), the bride's sex-starved sister, can't wrest her husband,
Johnny (
Harry Guardino), away from the TV; and
Frank (
Richard S. Castellano), as the groom's father, slips comfortably into
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations with his oft-repeated query "So what's the story?" Twelfth-billed
Diane Keaton makes her film debut as a garrulous wedding guest.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide