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Heartaches (1981)
Director: Donald Shebib
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Winsome (female) buddy movie which offers a roundly satisfying tragi-comic role to Kidder, but substantially less to its audience. The plot hinges on plain-looking Potts running away from her track-racer husband (Carradine) and shacking up with Kidder in downtown Toronto. One-time great hope of Canadian cinema, Shebib contents himself with schematic contrasts between the two women's approach to sex, and a sentimental excursion into an Italian immigrant community. Anyone homesick for Toronto might find compensations in the location photography; but if you ask more of a movie, this one is not answering.Author: MA
Cast & crew
Director: Donald Shebib
Producer: Pieter Kroonenburg, David J Patterson, Jerry Raibourn
Cast: Margot Kidder, Annie Potts, Robert Carradine, Michael Zeiniker, Arnie Achtman, Winston Rekert, George Touliatos full cast
Duration: 93 mins
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