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Here's to our friends... and the strength to put up with them.
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
The Four Seasons
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Vier Jahreszeiten, Las cuatro estaciones, Les Quatre saisons, A négy évszak, Patru anotimpuri, Čtyři roční období, Le quattro stagioni, Fyra årstider, Времена года, Cztery Pory Roku, 포 시즌즈, As Quatro Estações do Ano, 四季情
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USA
28 Aug 1981
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Sweden11
22 Jan 1982
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Germany12
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Germany
22 Jan 1982
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Sweden
28 Aug 1981
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USA
22 May 1981
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“You don’t know how painful it is to want to love someone.”
The Four Seasons is without a doubt one of my grandpa’s most underrated movies. He writes, directors and stars in this movie about three couples who go on vacations with each other during each season.
The film is really sentimental and human. My grandpa’s intention with making this movie was to show that friendship goes through seasons as well. There’ll always be ups and downs. Sometimes people will be too distant or busy for you, other times they’ll always be around you. And you’ll sometimes hit a rough patch with your friend where you may hate their guts! Much like the weather, there are four seasons when it comes…
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1981 Marathon - Film #36”I don’t wanna look at my friends naked.
It makes it hard to have dinner with them later.”Alan Alda writes and directs this story of three couples all coming together for four different get-togethers that each take place during a different…. wait for it…. SEASON!
It’s a touching look at the complex nature of friendships and how fragile we all are under the surface. This was Alda’s first feature film as a director and even though there’s several obvious filmmaking shenanigans with things like a ski jump and a car stunt, the film is essentially about people and their relationships, which is what Alda excels at.
His relationship with Carol Burnett…
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Today is my grandpa’s 87th birthday 🥳 To celebrate, I thought I’d rewatch a few of his movies.
As his years in M*A*S*H were winding down, my grandfather was trying to find the next thing to do. After directing many episodes on his tv show, he thought he’d go a step further and direct a feature. “The Four Seasons” became the first of four movies he directed. It was also his most successful. Doing the writing/directing/acting triple threat, the movie also featured Carol Burnett, Rito Moreno, Sandy Dennis, Len Cariou and Jack Weston. It grossed $50 mil (not bad for a first feature!) and was nominated for 4 golden globes! It’s the type of movie that doesn’t get made anymore.…
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the best part of this movie was watching carol burnett and alan alda laugh uncontrollably :’)
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“Is this the fun part? Are we having fun yet?”
Today is my grandfather’s 88th(!) birthday so I thought I’d revisit my favorite movie he directed.
It’s an underrated movie from its time, not many talk about this little movie anymore but it was a commercial success when it came out. At a time when M*A*S*H was winding down, my grandpa signed a 5 picture deal with a production company, this being his first of the five. The Four Seasons grossed $50 mil on a $4.5 mil budget and was nominated for 4 golden globes! It’s a poignant and heartfelt exploration of the complexities of friendship and the evolving nature of relationships through the metaphor of the changing seasons. In…
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It's hard to believe a movie this grounded and adult was one of the top ten grossers of the year. Do they even make 'dramedies' anymore?
With its episodic structure - 3 middle-aged couples taking trips together seasonally - I kept wondering how they were going to end this. (Based on the terrifying premise alone, my first thought was "murder-suicide", but nope.) There is a climax of sorts (and it saves its wackiest moment for this, which did get a laugh from me) but for the most part it just kind of ended. Which was OK. That it didn't fully resolve any of its minor conflicts only made it seem more believable.
It seems the cast approached this more as a drama with comedic elements versus the other way around, and I think that worked in the movie's favor. Carol Burnett gave the most nuanced performance. Solid directorial debut for Alda.
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i love movies like this they make me look forward to being older and an adult and all that stuff that society wants you to be scared of
gonna suck alan alda’s dick for writing this and directing it AND looking so hot when he smashed up the cabin😖
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1981 In Review - May
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Jack (Alan Alda) and Kate (Carol Burnett) traditionally go on vacation with their friends every new season. Old friend Nick (Len Cariou) surprises everyone when he arrives not with his wife, Anne (Sandy Dennis), but with his new girlfriend, the much younger Ginny (Bess Armstrong). The group -- all of which had grown to be good friends with Anne -- must come to terms with this unexpected development. Ultimately, they learn to accept Nick's decision, and work to welcome Ginny as a friend.This is one of those movies that doesn't seem to go anywhere but exactly where you think it will go: It starts out with 3 couples fairly happily vacationing together. Without…
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I just want to go on trips with my closest friends and cook together and wear sweaters and corduroy and also maybe throw a moose head into a fire place, is that too much to ask?
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The Mid Chill
This is one of just twenty-two English language works from the 1980s currently available on Netflix. I've now seen all but seven of them. Hulu is just as bad and maybe even worse when it comes to having pre-'90s movies.
It's wild to see the pop culture from your childhood (well, close enough) grow irrelevant/inaccessible/obsolete not even all that deep in your lifetime. My local library had a more extensive collection of video cassettes back in the day. It doesn't feel all that long ago when Target would be full of high-profile special anniversary edition DVDs of movies like Grease and Flashdance.
In short, I'm old, the streaming services don't care, and, despite Alan Alda's infinite charm, this movie was just okay.
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Couldn’t stop imagining Alan Alda as just Bill Hader doing a really good Alan Alda impression.
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