Same Time, Next Year (1978)

Directors

Robert Mulligan

Cast

Ellen Burstyn, Alan Alda, Ivan Bonar, Bernie Kuby

The story

In 1951, at an inn on the Mendocino County coast, Doris, a 24-year-old housewife from Oakland, meets George, a 27-year-old accountant from New Jersey at dinner. They have a sexual tryst, and despite the fact that both are happily married with six children between them, agree to meet every year at the same hotel for one weekend together. The film jumps forward 5 years at a time, episodically chronicling their time together, the changes each goes through, their respective marriages, and their deepening connection.

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