Such Good Friends (1971) on Netflix
Julie Messinger is a Manhattan housewife, married to Richard and raising two sons. Richard enters the hospital for minor surgery and falls into a coma, and Julie must deal with the doctors.
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Plot summary
Julie Messinger lives in Manhattan with her husband Richard, a magazine art director and the author of a best-selling children's book, and their two sons, Matthew and Nicky. Her circle includes Dr. Timmy Spector, the photographer Cal Whiting and Cal's girlfriend Miranda Graham, and her mother, Mrs. Wallman, who spends her days on manicures, make-up and expensive clothes. Richard checks into the hospital for a minor operation on a mole on his neck. He falls into a coma during the surgery, and Timmy explains that another surgeon nicked an artery, and that a blood transfusion brought on a rare allergic reaction. Julie gathers friends and family in the hospital's blood donation center.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Such Good Friends (1971)
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- Not wanting her name attached to work created by others, the screenwriter, May, insisted on taking no screen credit and used the pseudonym Esther Dale, the name of a Hollywood character actress; Preminger later revealed her involvement to help promote the film, which upset her.
- Preminger and leading lady Dyan Cannon clashed throughout filming, disagreeing about everything from how her character should be portrayed to how she should be dressed, with her constant lateness a particular irritation; they made peace once the film was finished but vowed never to work together again.
- Through his son Erik, who was working as his story editor, producer Otto Preminger heard about a manuscript by Lois Gould rumored to be a hot property, and bought the film rights for $200,000 in February 1970, three months before the book was published.
- Joan Micklin Silver tackled the adaptation first, but Preminger found her too much of a feminist and more psychologically attuned to the character than he thought necessary; he then hired Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne and worked with them for several months.
