ROMANTIC GAY MOVIES WITH HAPPY ENDING TV
Time capsule & what progress?Ī must-see well-made, well-intentioned TV movie, that is, considering its time-capsule depiction of urban, white middle-class gay life in the U.S. And that’s one of the best things about Making Love, which otherwise comes across as well-made, well-intentioned TV movie.
Yet an idyllic happy ending proves elusive.
Vivien Leigh Death on Film: ‘Anna Karenina’ & ‘The Roman Spring of Mrs. Enter openly gay writer and unabashedly sexually active club-hopper Harry Hamlin and there goes the doctor’s conformist straight life. Things are so cozy that the seemingly happy couple, who are planning on having a child, spend time together repeating bits of Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant’s dialogue from Leo McCarey’s An Affair to Remember.īut underneath the doctor’s bourgeois existence lies something dark and disturbing: he appreciates the music of Gilbert and Sullivan, the poetry of Rupert Brooke, and hot-looking men. In this 20th Century Fox release – Sherry Lansing was the studio head at the time – Michael Ontkean plays a doctor married to a television executive (Kate Jackson) with whom he shares a comfortable upper-middle-class life in Los Angeles. Scott Berg, who wrote the “story” on which the film is based.
ROMANTIC GAY MOVIES WITH HAPPY ENDING MOVIE
The movie will be followed by a Q&A session with Harry Hamlin, screenwriter Barry Sandler, and author A. at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre on Wilshire Blvd. The 35th Anniversary Screening of Making Love will be held on Saturday, June 24 – it’s Gay Pride month, after all – at 7:30 p.m.
Michael Ontkean, Harry Hamlin, and Kate Jackson star. movie distributed by a major studio that focused on a romantic gay relationship. As part of its Anniversary Classics series, Laemmle Theaters will be presenting Arthur Hiller’s groundbreaking 1982 romantic drama Making Love, the first U.S.