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Old Boyfriends
Directed by
Joan Tewkesbury
R
1979
1h 42m
Drama
5.8
53%
31%
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When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out the former boyfriends who left the biggest impacts on her life, mostly in negative ways.
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Cast of Old Boyfriends
Talia Shire
Dianne
Richard Jordan
Jeff
John Belushi
Eric
Keith Carradine
Wayne
Gerrit Graham
The Fisherman
Bethel Leslie
Mrs. Vantil
Joan Hotchkis
Pamela Shaw
William Bassett
David Brinks
Nina Jordan
Dylan
Buck Henry
Art Kopple
John Houseman
Dr. Hoffman
Barry Michlin
Burt
Jon Cutler
Bartender
Jim Raymond
Man in bar
Mary McCusker
Desk clerk
Brenda King
Sue Ann
P. J. Soles
Sandy
Dominique Pinassi
Dianne Age 13 (voice)
Murphy Dunne
Bloodshot Band Keyboard
Jim Keltner
Bloodshot Band Drums
Roy Marinell
Bloodshot Band Bass Guitar
Paul Flaherty
Bloodshot Band Lead Guitar
Thomas McGowan
Fisherman (uncredited)
Joan Tewkesbury
Director
Paul Schrader
Writer
Leonard Schrader
Writer
Edward R. Pressman
Producer
Michele Rappaport
Producer
Old Boyfriends Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Film Blog
Kathy Fennessy
If Old Boyfriends isn't completely successful, not least in the way Dianne's suitors outshine her in the charisma department, [Joan] Tewkesbury's sole theatrical feature deserves better than it got in 1979.
Moviepudding
Elissa Suh
The film treads too softly and ignores pointed observation by sweeping Shire's character's major depression under the proverbial rug, and the performances and mise en scene in this movie don't exactly enthrall.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
Shire is as funny and charming as she is melancholy, and equal parts moving yet frustrating as Dianne Cruise.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
A mopey, dry soap opera.
Chicago Reader
Kathleen Sachs
I find Tewkesbury's restraint more interesting, as it results in something hazily impenetrable and truer to the often ambiguous nature of people's thoughts and motivations.
Cambridge Day
Tom Meek
It's a meandering curio, driven by the enigma of what propels Dianne and the question of what is true and real, all underscored by an eerily aloof narration from a Diane some years down the line, voicing over with mordant lines plucked from diary entries.
People Magazine
People Staff
Tewkesbury has absorbed much of Altman's ability to capture spontaneity, but none of his genius for telling a good story.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Tewkesbury evokes a Hitchcockian depth of subjectivity in what is essentially a first-person survey of women's hidden terrors.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Joan Tewksbury, who penned Altman's wonderful movie Nashville, makes a so so direcying debut with this sharply uneven serio comedy.
Variety
Variety Staff
A protege of Robert Altman, novice director Joan Tewkesbury, who scripted his Nashville, employs similar loosely narrative techniques, with the Shire character holding together the series of set pieces.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The performers... invest much more of themselves in the film than it ever returns to them.
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