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Making Love

Making Love (1982)

  • 31% of critics liked it
    (16 reviews)

  • 59% of users liked it
    (1,606 ratings)

Arthur Hiller directed this drama exploring the disintegration of an ideal marriage after the husband discovers he is gay. Kate Jackson is Claire, a successful television producer, and Michael Ontkean is her husband Zack, an equally successful doctor. They enjoy eight years of married bliss until… More

R,
Directed By
Written By
A. Scott Berg, Barry Sandler (II)
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1982 Wide
20th Century Fox

Critic Reviews

  • Geoff Andrew, Time Out

    This is a three-handkerchief movie, all right, but for the nose. It stinks.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    This movie has some of the worst dialogue one can imagine: She: 'What about passion?' He: 'What about support?' She: 'What about betrayal?'

  • Janet Maslin, New York Times

    Once the cat is out of the bag, the movie turns rip-roaring awful in an entirely enjoyable way.

  • Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

    Unfortunately, Hiller doesn't command the intensity of feeling that might have made it emotionally valid, and he doesn't have the awareness of the cultural forces at work in his film that might have made it intellectually respectable.

  • Nick Davis, Nick's Flick Picks

    On its own baby-step terms, and despite its moneyed vanilla-himbo vision of gay masculinity and desire, Making Love plays now as a bemusing anachronism but not an insulting or self-inflating one.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • jay n


    Dated but well intentioned and at the time ground breaking drama. The male leads are good but best of all is Kate Jackson, its a shame she didn't make it in features. Wendy Hiller offers a lovely performance in a small role.

  • Sarah P


    This movie addresses a very real problem for many closeted gay men and their families - it was well done and seemes very progressive for when it was made.

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