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Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is herself unhappily married — to the boss. They spend an innocent night in New York becoming more and more attracted to each other, so that when Catherine announces she intends to leave her husband and return to Paris, Howard asks to go along too.
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
Metacritic47/100
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
42 audience votes
Key crew
- Stuart RosenbergDirector
- Hal DresnerWriter
- Marvin HamlischOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Jack LemmonHoward Brubaker
- Catherine DeneuveCatherine Gunther
- Peter LawfordTed Gunther
- Jack WestonPotter Shrader
- Myrna LoyGrace Greenlaw
- Charles BoyerAndre Greenlaw
- Kenneth MarsLes Hopkins
- Melinda DillonLeslie Hopkins
- Harvey KormanMatt Benson
- Sally KellermanPhyllis Brubaker
- Gary DubinStanley Brubaker
- Janice CarrollMimsy Shrader
Stills
Themes
infidelitybosstrophy wife