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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (1975)
Directed by John Trent
“A gilt-edged wacky comedy”
Comedy · 1h 30m
Sweeney is a playwright on a career decline. He spends much of his time wheedling money and beer out of his artistic friend Moriarty. One of his few highlights is weekly sex with his ex-wife Georgia. She is remarried to a rich but vile construction developer, but Sweeney and Gorgina are still in love.
Cast
Anthony Newley
Stefanie Powers
Isaac Hayes
Lloyd Bochner
Yvonne De Carlo
Henry Ramer
Lawrence Dane
John Candy
Robert A. Silverman
Crew
- Director
- John Trent
- Writer
- John Trent, David Main
- Director of Photography
- Harry Makin
- Original Music Composer
- William McCauley
- Editor
- Tony Lower
- Producer
- David Perlmutter
Details
- Release date
- 1975-09-11
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- Quadrant Films, Canadian Film Development Corporation