Movie Releases – 5 March 1982

Making Love (1982)

Stars: Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin

Director: Arthur Hiller

Writers: Barry Sandler (screenplay), A. Scott Berg (story)

Genre: Drama

IndieProd Company Productions, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Time: 113 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men. Zach and Claire live a comfortable life secure in their love for one another when Bart, a swinging L.A. novelist, walks into Zach's office and awakens unfamiliar feelings in him. In a move which leaves him wracked with guilt, Zach cancels dinner with his wife in order to go out with Bart. He is inexplicably drawn to this man who seems intent on keeping him at arms distance. Why can't Bart allow their relationship to grow? he wonders. Exasperated, he asks Bart, "Do you snore? Does anybody ever get a chance to find out?" As Zach's absences become more and more frequent, Claire's concern manifests itself in the suspicion that he is having an affair with another woman. Jilted by Bart and feeling alone for the first time in his married life, Zach resolves to tell Claire the truth about ...

Evil Under the Sun (1982)

Stars: Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Maggie Smith

Director: Guy Hamilton

Writer: Anthony Shaffer (screenplay)

Genre: Crime/Drama/Mystery

EMI Films, Titan Productions, Mersham Productions Ltd.

Time: 117 min

Rating: PG

Plot

Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate a case for an insurance company regarding firstly a dead woman's body found on a moor and then a important diamond sent to the company to be insured turns out to be a fake. Poirot discovers that the diamond was bought for Arlena Marshall by Sir Horace Platt and Arlena is on her honeymoon with her husband and step-daughter on a tropical island hotel. He joins them on the island and finds that everybody else starts to hate Arlena for different reasons - refusing to do a stage show, stopping a book, and for having an open affair with Patrick Redfern, another guest, in full view of his shy wife. So it's only a matter of time before Arlena turns up dead, strangled and Poirot must find out who it is...

Diner (1982)

Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon

Director: Barry Levinson

Writer: Barry Levinson

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), SLM Production Group

Time: 110 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

Early twenty-something Baltimoreans Eddie, Shrevie, Boogie, Billy, Fenwick and Modell have been friends since they were kids, where the center of their lives has been and still is the Fells Point Diner. It's the last week of 1959. Baltimore Colts fanatic Eddie is scheduled to get married to Elyse on New Year's Eve, but may call off the wedding if Elyse doesn't pass his Colts quiz which he will hold two days before the scheduled wedding. Inexperienced Eddie turns to the only other married one among the bunch, electronics salesman and music aficionado Shrevie, for advice, he who may not be the best person from who to ask advice on marriage since he doesn't yet realize that he probably got married to his wife Beth for the wrong reasons. Indeed, Beth, who has lost her sense of identity, is unhappy in their marriage, and contemplates having an affair with someone who provides what she believes is a sympathetic shoulder. Hairdresser and law school student Boogie is the player of the bunch, ...

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)

Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Nicol Williamson, Dianne Wiest

Director: Jack Hofsiss

Writers: Barbara Gordon (book), David Rabe

Genre: Biography/Drama

Paramount Pictures

Time: 107 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

A true story about Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Gordon's Valium addiction and her desperate attempts to kick the habit.

Deadly Games (1982) (Limited - Port Arthur, Texas)

Stars: Alexandra Morgan, Jo Ann Harris, Sam Groom

Director: Scott Mansfield

Writer: Scott Mansfield

Genre: Horror/Mystery

Great Plains Films

Time: 92 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

A town is being terrorized by a masked killer who is murdering women. A young woman is attacked by the killer but escapes. She believes the killer to be either the town's policeman or the manager of the local theater, and she devises a plan to find out which is the actual killer.