An Unmarried Woman
1978
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Willie ( Michael Ontkean) is a high school teacher as the movie opens, but he wants to be more, to feel deeply, to think on more exalted levels, and his journey through the decade takes him into radicalism, back to the earth, and all the way to India for lessons in meditation.
Reviews 33% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score Life imitates art when two Manhattanites -- pompous teacher Willie (Michael Ontkean) and quiet photographer Phil (Ray Sharkey) -- become friends...
- Paul Mazursky
- Comedy, Drama
- Michael Ontkean
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Jesús Fernández Santos El Pais (Spain) Paul Mazursky's story feels old. His allusions to the East and to American society are not funny but...
What the Willie, Phil and Jeannette characters don't really come to terms with is the potential for a nurturing, satisfying, mutual triangle. While Willie's and Jeannette's, and Phil's and Jeannette's liaison is richly explored, Willie's and Phil's remains dutifully platonic and unconsumated.
Recent reviews. Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking screening of "Jules et Jim," Truffaut's classic film about a decades-long ménage à trois.
- Paul Mazursky
- 20th Century Fox
Willie and Phil is a provocative, humanistic, and multi-leveled film well worth seeing and discussing.
Aug 15, 1980 · Remake of Jules et Jim following the experiences over a decade of two friends who fall in love with the same woman, enjoyably satirising the 70's through the search by the three protagonists for their identities and making sharp attacks on cultural signposts of the decade along the way.
