Starting Over (1979)

Directors

Alan J. Pakula

Cast

Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Frances Sternhagen

The story

Phil Potter, a freelance magazine writer, is taken aback when his wife Jessica, who cheated on him with his boss, asks for a divorce, determined to pursue a career as a singer-songwriter. Phil moves from New York City to Boston, where his psychiatrist brother, Mickey, lives with his wife, Marva, and rents an apartment in the city. Mickey and Marva set him up with a friend, Marilyn Holmberg, a neurotic nursery school teacher working on her master's degree.

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