Irreconcilable Differences (1984) on Netflix
PG19841h 53mComedyDramaRomance
Film professor Albert Brodsky is hitchhiking in Indiana when Lucy van Patten gives him a ride. Their daughter Casey decides to divorce them and live with her nanny, Maria Hernandez.
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Plot summary
At a truck stop in Indiana in January 1973, Albert Brodsky, a film professor, is hitchhiking across the country when Lucy van Patten picks him up. Lucy writes children's books and is engaged to Bink, a Navy man; she breaks the engagement and marries Albert. In California, a producer entrusts Albert with a romantic script, and Lucy helps him with the writing. The film is a hit and Albert is nominated for Best Director, but he is slow to credit her, and his travels leave their daughter Casey with Lucy or with Maria Hernandez, the maid. Albert casts a young woman, Blake Chandler, in his next film, and the marriage comes apart. Casey grows fluent in Spanish, and when her parents quarrel over her, she decides to divorce them.
Cast
- Hortensia Coloradoas Maria Hernandez
- Kim Marrineras Reporter
- Wendy Gordonas Reporter
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Irreconcilable Differences (1984)
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- The film was inspired by the divorce between director Peter Bogdanovich and his first wife, producer Polly Platt, after he left her for actress Cybill Shepherd, whose proxy in the film is played by Sharon Stone. Sam Wanamaker plays a producer based on Roger Corman.
- Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers, who had written and produced Private Benjamin together, said much of the material was based on their own romantic relationship: when they made the film they had been together for a number of years and shared a child.
- Ryan O'Neal said he took no salary at all and did the film for points, because it was made for under $6 million and there was no money to pay the cast. He still called it some of his best work.
