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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.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 2 nominations total
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- TriviaBurt 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."
- GoofsGoldie 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 versionsABC edited 13 minutes from this film for its 1986 network television premiere.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: Dueling Critics (1983)
- SoundtracksHow 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
Featured review
The undeniable charm of its stars, at the peak of their popularity, is the only thing that makes BEST FRIENDS slightly watchable. This paper-thin story centers on a pair of Hollywood screen writers named Richard Babson (Burt Reynolds) and Paula McCullen (Goldie Haw), who after years of living together, decide to marry, though they both have always felt marriage would destroy their relationship. There's nothing new or interesting here and the thrust of the film is when the pair make a trip to visit each other's parents. Jessica Tandy and Barnard Hughes are wonderful as Goldie's parents, Audra Lindley and Keenan Wynn also have their moments as Burt's parents, but the whole thing just plays like a hastily written sitcom. The film is driven purely on star power and has this whole "been there done that" air about it. I think Burt and Goldie must have needed the money.
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- Bračna Veza
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- $15,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $36,821,203
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,022,891
- Dec 19, 1982
- Gross worldwide
- $36,821,203
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