Starting Over (1979) on Netflix
Phil Potter's wife Jessica wants a divorce to pursue a singing career. In Boston, his brother and sister-in-law introduce him to their friend Marilyn Holmberg, who teaches nursery school.
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Plot summary
Phil Potter writes freelance magazine articles in New York City until his wife Jessica, who had an affair with his boss, asks for a divorce so she can work as a singer-songwriter. He moves to Boston, where his brother Mickey, a psychiatrist, lives with his wife Marva. Mickey and Marva arrange for him to meet their friend Marilyn Holmberg, a nursery school teacher studying for a master's degree who is uneasy about men just out of marriages. Phil asks her out and she suggests they hold off for a few months. Once the divorce is final he starts attending a church basement group for divorced men, takes a job teaching creative writing at a college, and has his first date in years with Marie, a single mother and a friend of Marilyn's.
Cast
- Richard Whitingas Everett
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Starting Over (1979)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager wrote three original songs for Starting Over, "Easy for You", "Better Than Ever" and "Starting Over", all of which Candice Bergen sings in the film but Stephanie Mills sings on the radio versions.
- The 1979 film Starting Over, directed by Alan J. Pakula, marked the first feature film screenplay written by James L. Brooks.
