Willie & Phil (1980)
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37% want to see it
(27 ratings)
Director Paul Mazursky's follow-up to his 1978 hit An Unmarried Woman found this filmmaker creating a feature-length homage to the François Truffaut classic Jules and Jim. Willie and Phil begins with Jewish intellectual schoolteacher Willie (Michael Ontkean) meeting gregarious Italian-American… More Director Paul Mazursky's follow-up to his 1978 hit An Unmarried Woman found this filmmaker creating a feature-length homage to the François Truffaut classic Jules and Jim. Willie and Phil begins with Jewish intellectual schoolteacher Willie (Michael Ontkean) meeting gregarious Italian-American fashion photographer Phil (Ray Sharkey) at a screening of Jules and Jim. The two hit it off immediately and soon find their circle of two expanding to three when they meet Jeanette (Margot Kidder), a free-spirited Southerner who has moved to New York City to figure out her life. Jeanette soon moves in Willie, but the three find themselves in a romantic triangle that constantly shifts over the next nine years as each of the three struggles to find their destiny while honoring the love they feel for each other. Mazursky would later remake another foreign classic (Boudu Saved From Drowning) into his hit Down and Out in Beverly Hills ~ Donald Guarisco, Rovi
- Directed By
- Paul Mazursky
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
R,
Critic Reviews
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
Willie & Phil vividly shows the pain and unfulfilment that comes with the yearning for new experience that is so embedded in the American grain.
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Cast
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Michael Ontkean
as Willie Kaufman
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Margot Kidder
as Jeanette Sutherland
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Ray Sharkey
as Phil D'Amico
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Jerry Hall
as Karen
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Jan Miner
as Mrs. Kaufman
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Natalie Wood
as Herself
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Julie Bovasso
as Mrs. D'Amico
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Tom Brennan
as Mr. Kaufman
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Louis Guss
as Mr. D'Amico
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Kathleen Maguire
as Mrs. Sutherland
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Kaki Hunter
as Patti Sutherland
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Kristine de Bell
as Rena
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Alison Cass Shurpin
as Zelda Kaufman Number 4
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Christine Varnai
as Zelda Kaufman Number 3
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Laurence Fishburne
as Wilson
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Walter N. Lowery
as Park Bum
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Helen Hanft
as Used Car Salesperson
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Hubert J. Edwards
as Black Kid
- Alvin Alexis
- Sol Frieder
- Cynthia McPherson
- Donald F. Muhich
- Tom Noonan
- Lionel Pina
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Rick van Nutter
as Official Clerk
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Jill Mazursky Cody
as Jill
- Robert Townsend
- Karen Montgomery
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Eivind Harum
as Igor
- Kitty Muldoon
