A Change of Seasons

During the ski race, shots taken on a very sunny day are mixed with shots taken on a cloudy day.

On most of the interior shots, and all of the closeups, the daughter's huge eyeglasses are merely frames with no lenses in them.

Complications ensue when a married couple vacation as a foursome with their respective extramarital lovers in this odd comedy-drama starring Anthony Hopkins and Shirley MacLaine. The film bares striking similarities to fellow 1980 MacLaine movie 'Loving Couples', but this effort is balanced more in favour of drama than comedy (not necessarily a better thing).

Anthony Hopkins,Shirley McClaine,Michael Landon, and Bo Derek star in this 1980 film written by author Erich Segal,who wrote the 1970 novel-turned-into-movie "Love Story", stars in "A Change Of Seasons". The screenplay involves a college professor whose marriage takes a sour turn when he got involved in his young college female student.

Middle-aged college professor Adam Evans (superbly played by Anthony Hopkins) has an extramarital fling with lovely, innocent coed Lindsey Rutledge (a winning performance by the delectable Bo Derek). Meanwhile, Adam's spunky wife Karyn (a marvelously sassy and spirited Shirley MacLaine) gets involved with kind, hunky young carpenter Peter Lachapelle (affable Michael Brandon).

A middle-aged husband (Anthony Hopkins) falls for a beautiful young woman (Bo Derek). His wife (Shirley MacLaine) starts her own affair in retaliation.

This film was well written by Erich Segal of Love Story fame and by the producer, Martin Ransohoff. It is a comedic farce, but it is also touching and poignant and the characters are all quite likable and well developed.

Advertised as a wacky marital sex romp (with allusions to wife-swapping), this Erich Segal script surprises by being a mostly sobering look at a marriage between two middle-agers (Shirley MacLaine and Anthony Hopkins) which has faltered and can't really be rectified. Released alongside a spate of similar middle-age-crazy comedy-dramas (including MacLaine's "Loving Couples", which she made back-to-back with "Seasons"), this one has the added appeal of seeing serious-minded Hopkins romancing Bo Derek (fresh off her triumph in "10" and usually out of her clothes).

I loved this film when I saw it on the big screen as a teenager, and I loved it even more when I saw it again yesterday. We watch characters developing in a crucial situation - some of them more, some of them less.

Quirky, thoroughly offbeat erotic comedy is ultimately worth seeing, despite its talkiness and its occasionally stagy direction. It sure deals with some serious subjects in a less-than-plausible way (the characters are way too calm and civilized), but its gentle eccentricity, and the appealing performances by the entire cast (Bo Derek is stunning!

Great "find" in video stores boasts a really good script regarding the sexual strayings of a mid-life couple. Anthony Hopkins plays the philandering husband (Bo Derek the young hot tart) and Shirley MacLaine plays the wife who takes up with a lover of her own.