The Personals (1982)
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Peter Markle
The story
Bill Henrikson, a magazine publisher in Minneapolis, places a personal advertisement after his wife Jennifer leaves him for another man. His married friend Paul persuades the reluctant Bill to submit an ad in The Twin Cities Reader describing himself as a "SWM, 32" interested in Picasso and chicken Kiev. Bill receives multiple responses and begins dating.
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romantic comedy
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