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Just Between Friends |  | Director: Allan Burns
Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Julie Payne, Beverly Sanders, Salome Jens, Ted Danson
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  9 reviews
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 111 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 1005903
ISBN: 0792859251
UPC: 027616901330
EAN: 9780792859253
Theatrical Release Date: March 21, 1986
Release Date: January 13, 2004
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| • | Oscar® nominees* Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People) and Christine Lahti ("Chicago Hope") give "virtuoso performances" (Ms.) as newfound friends in this compelling tale that "makes you laugh, cry and works you over emotionally" (Orange Coast) through to its gripping and heartfelt end. Holly Davis (Moore) seems to have it all the stylish house, the perfect kids, the devoted husband (Ted Dans |
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Oscar® nominees* Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People) and Christine Lahti ("Chicago Hope") give "virtuoso performances" (Ms.) as newfound friends in this compelling tale that "makes you laugh cry and works you over emotionally" (Orange Coast) through to its gripping and heartfelt end.Holly Davis (Moore) seems to have it all the stylish house the perfect kids the devoted husband (Ted Danson). But it takes an unlikely friendship with Sandy (Lahti) a wisecracking chain-smoking career woman to show her that life is never what it seems to be. But in the face of tragedy when she needs Sandy the most Holly discovers a dark secret that not only ties the two friends together but will also shake their friendship to its foundation!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 027616901330 Manufacturer No: 1005903
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 "A Movie Soap Opera At Its Best!" April 23, 2009
Terry Richard (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada)
Multiple Emmy winner and Academy Award nominee Mary Tyler Moore stars in this film set in Los Angeles, and portrays a woman married to a man with two teenagers. Holly, the Moore character, is a suburban houswife, whose life revolves around her family. One night she meets Sandy, played beautifully by Christine Lahti, at an aerobics class, and the two become instantaneous best friends. Holly is shy and withdrawn, where Sandy is outgoing and speaks her mind. The story reaches its dramatic heigth when Holly's husband dies in a car crash, and while cleaning out her husband's office, discovers Sandy was having an affair with him.
A superbly written and well-acted movie, I was surprised the film was not a bigger hit both with the audience and Oscar voters: this film has Academy Award written all over it.
If you want to watch an intelligent drama with excellent acting and direction, "Just Between Friends" is it.
The DVD is pretty much empty as far as features are concerned, but it comes in a dual-layer disc and is in both standard and widescreen format, and the theatrical trailer is included.
"The Toronto Sun" says, this film is "the most touching human comedy to stir the heart since "Terms of Endearment"".
A classic great movie December 2, 2008
Beth Boettcher
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I haven't seen this movie in years and like it just as much now as I did then. It is a really good movie and I think it is a classic. Mary Tyler Moore and Christine Lahti are great together and I have always liked Sam Waterston.
Mary Tyler Moore is Superb September 14, 2008
barry (Boston, MA United States)
Boy, this movie takes place in the 80's and at first you must get over how dated it is. The clothes are hilarious but not as much as the big hairstyles. Hilarious. But move beyond the opening drawn out areobics class and a very entertaining weepy drama will draw you in.
Mary Tyler Moore, a housewife meets Christine Lahti, a newsreporter in an aerobics class and they form an instant bond both not having many female friends. Ms. Moore is happily married and lo and behold it ends up Ms. Lahti is having an affair with a married man who is Ms. Moore's husband.
How this drama plays out and how the plot develops is very well done and certainly character driven. The acting is superb all around but for me watching the movie 22 years after it was made I am most impressed with Mary Tyler Moore. If this situation happened today the people involved would most certainly be in different places and deal with things a little differently.
Mary Tyler Moore makes her somewhat timid housewife who yearns for more very believable and the journey of self discovery she embarks on is very well told. It also provides Ms. Moore wirth some excellent scenes. She truly becomes this character and her emotions are believably raw. She makes the otherwise datedness of this movie not an issue. Her character is timeless and you believe she could be from this generation and going through the same processes.
Give yourself a treat and enjoy this quality emotional drama.
Sweet Movie!! July 4, 2008
I loved this movie! I'm only 12, but I thought it was so sweet! Ms. Moore went from Laura Petrie/Mary Richards image, to Beth Jarret, then back to Laura. I thought it was so mean of the husband to cheat on such a sweet, loyal, and devoted lady. The only thing about this movie was that Holly (Mary Tyler Moore) looked so much older than her husband in the movie!!! Was she supposed to be younger than she actually was? Mary Tyler Moore is my favorite actress, so maybe that is why I like this movie, but I really did think it was so cute!!! And in the end...(sorry if this spoils it) does Harry go with Holly? It doesn't make it clear...not to me anyhow.
 Oddly Entertaining May 29, 2006
lewis jackman (Sleepy Lagoon)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Imagine an Eighties update on a Forties "women's picture". . . but with Laura Petrie or Mary Richards as the long-suffering heroine. . .and Sam (Ted Danson) Malone as the cheating spouse!
Mary Tyler Moore is spunkily stalwart as the wronged wife but wise-cracking Christine Lahti steals the picture as the other woman. (Guess Valerie Harper was busy.) Plays like a jazzercise-era remake of the old Bette Davis/Mary Astor tear-jerker "The Great Lie." Movie never makes up its mind whether it's a comedy or a drama but is oddly entertaining nevertheless.
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