Taglines: Why do they call it “adultery,” when it makes them act like children?
Loving Couples offers a comic spin on adultery. When Greg crashes his sports car, doctor Evelyn comes to his rescue, and the two soon are engaged in an affair. Evelyn’s workaholic husband learns about it from Greg’s live-in girlfriend, scatterbrained television weather girl Stephanie, and the two begin to engage in a dalliance of their own. Complications arise when the two couples plan a clandestine weekend getaway at the same Acapulco resort.
Loving Couples is a 1980 American romantic comedy film written by Martin Donovan and directed by Jack Smight. It stars Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn, Susan Sarandon and Stephen Collins.
The scenes in Mexico actually were shot in San Diego, California, and the hotel interiors were filmed at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.
The film grossed $2,806,659 in the US. Together with A Change of Seasons, the film was one of two 1980 20th Century Fox releases starring Shirley MacLaine that dealt with the subject of marital infidelity.
Soundtrack
A soundtrack to the movie was released on Motown Records featuring new music from The Temptations, Syreeta, and Billy Preston. Also featured the song “Bass Odyssey” by Jermaine Jackson from his 1976 album My Name Is Jermaine.
Side One
Take Me Away (The Temptations)(written by Fred Karlin and Dean Pitchford)
And So It Begins (Instrumental Version)(written by Fred Karlin)
Turn Up the Music (Syreeta)(written by Fred Karlin and Dean Pitchford)
I’ll Make It With Your Love (Billy Preston)(written by Fred Karlin and Norman Gimbel)
Side Two
And So It Begins (Syreeta)(written by Fred Karlin and Norman Gimbel)
I’ll Make It With Your Love (Instrumental Version)(written by Fred Karlin)
There’s More Where That Came From (The Temptations)(written by Fred Karlin and Dean Pitchford)
Bass Odyssey (Jermaine Jackson)(written by Greg Wright)
All songs were produced by Teddy Randazzo, except for “Bass Odyssey” which was produced by Greg Wright. Also Karlin himself produced the instrumental versions of “And So It Begins” and “I’ll Make It With Your Love”.
Loving Couples (1980)
Directed by: Jack Smight
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn, Susan Sarandon, Stephen Collins, Sally Kellerman, Nan Martin, Shelly Batt, Bernard Behrens, Anne Bloom
Screenplay by: Martin Donovan
Cinematography by: Philip H. Lathrop
Film Editing by: Frank J. Urioste
Costume Design by: Theoni V. Aldredge, Arnold Scaasi
Set Decoration by: Bill Harp
Music by: Fred Karlin
Distributed by: 20th-Century Fox
Release Date: October 24, 1980
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