Taglines: Life’s funny. And with good friends, you can even laugh about it.
Married to It tells the story of three couples, thrown together by chance at a school function, who become friendly and help each other weather life’s vicissitudes. One couple is rich and newlywed, one is made of long-married former hippies, and one is young and having troubles. It’s sort of like those arithmetic problems about A, B and C, where they all have two-gallon buckets but when C gets to the top of the hill he discovers that his bucket has been leaking at a rate of two pints an hour.
Couple A (Cybill Shepherd and Ron Silver) are rich. She’s his attractive new trophy wife, none too pleased that a daughter from an earlier marriage is moping about in a state of perpetual discontent. Couple B (Beau Bridges and Stockard Channing) have been married for a long time, after a classic ’60s start that involved sex, drugs and rock and roll. Their family leads a shabby but comfortable lifestyle. Couple C (Mary Stuart Masterson and Robert Sean Leonard) are starting out. She’s a school counselor, given a broom closet for an office, and he’s an up-and-coming young securities analyst.
They all meet at a school parent-teacher function, and get shanghaied onto a committee. Meeting over dinner to make plans, they begin to share confidences, and find they get along. So one dinner party turns into three, and along the way a lot of underlying difficulties get revealed, and they find they can care about each other and help each other. Such discoveries were once routine in American life, but now, I guess, when three professional couples take time out from their busy schedules to express ordinary human sympathy, it’s exceptional enough to inspire a movie.
Married to It is a 1993 film directed by Arthur Hiller about three New York City couples with disparate careers, ages, and lifestyles who nonetheless bond through their mutual connection to a local private school. As they help to stage a school pageant with a 1960s theme, each couple begins to quarrel and reassess their marriage.
Married to It (1993)
Directed by: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Beau Bridges, Stockard Channing, Robert Sean Leonard, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cybill Shepherd, Ron Silver, Donna Vivino, Diane D’Aquila, Jimmy Shea
Screenplay by: Janet Kovalcik
Production Design by: Robert Gundlach
Cinematography by: Victor J. Kemper
Film Editing by: Robert C. Jones
Costume Design by: Julie Weiss
Music by: Henry Mancini
MPAA Rating: R for language, and for a scene of sensuality.
Distributed by: Orion Pictures
Release Date: March 26, 1993
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