Editorial Review:Description:What would you do if your husband fell in love - with another man? 'Making Love' is about Zack (Michael Ontkean) and Claire (Kate Jackson) - two attractive, successful and playful affectionate partners who share the perfect marriage. He's a medic. She's a TV exec. And they're about to buy an absolutely gorgeous Beverly Hills home. Enter Bart (Harry Hamlin). He's a gay writer whose striking good looks pepper his social life with enough one-night stands so that he easily avoids commitment. When they first meet, Zack is merely curious. Gradually, he decides to take the plunge. Less about homosexuality than self-discovery, 'Making Love' tackles the fundamentals of life - pain, loss, recovery - with astonishing sincerity and candor. Some critical scenes - such as when Zack tells Claire what's really happening to their marriage - are handled with a sensitivity rarely found in American movies. Highlighted by touching performances, 'Making Love' really probes the depths of passion - in all of us.
Amazon.com:The studio marketed
Making Love as 'one of the most honest and controversial films we have ever released,' adding that 'it may be too strong for some people.' That was then, and what once seemed shocking now seems tame. Still, it's hard to imagine the more sexually explicit
Brokeback Mountain without it. On the surface, Beverly Hills physician Zack (Michael Ontkean,
Twin Peaks) and his TV producer wife, Claire (Kate Jackson,
Charlie's Angels), are the ideal couple. A smartly-dressed Gilbert and Sullivan fan, Zack appears to have little in common with denim-clad, openly-gay novelist Bart (Harry Hamlin,
L.A. Law). They meet when Bart makes an appointment for a check-up, and the two hit it off. Turns out they share a love of 'corny old movies.' Afterwards, Zack can't stop thinking about his vain, if affectionate patient. Lunch leads to dinner, which leads to physical intimacy (sex is suggested rather than shown). Zack is falling in love, but Bart has no interest in commitment, and Claire suspects another woman.
Making Love is narrated by Claire and Bart, who speak directly to the camera. It's unclear whether Arthur Hiller, best known for
Love Story, is going for documentary-style realism or foreign film-style sophistication, but the technique
does differentiate
Making Love from your average soap opera (story credit goes to Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg). Though Hamlin has maintained the highest profile since, it’s the sensitive performances of Ontkean and Jackson that anchor this no longer groundbreaking, but still relevant romantic drama.
--Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Worth viewing again
For those of us who were old enough to see "Making Love" when it first came out over a quarter century ago, a second look is well worth it. At the time, this film was considered groundbreaking, if not overly deep, but one is reminded that this was a pre-AIDS era and one where gay themes had not yet been tackled in a two-hour film.
The story is simple enough...a triangulation of people in love and a marriage which fails due not to any malicious intent. While the acting is not exactly gripping, it does have a poignancy and relevance to 2008. "Making Love" could be made today with some minor changes, but the core of the film is good.
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Great Movie but 10 Years too late!
This is a great Movie and a good song to boot! It should have been one that could have been told 10 years sooner in 72. But good just the same. Can you believe Goldie Hawn was suppose to play the Jackson part. It would have been too funny!
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" A Beautiful Love Story"
Way before "Brokeback Mounatin" proved that a love story between 2 men could work in Hollywood "Making Love" was a movie that explored the topic. Wonderfully produced and acted "Making Love" has not aged. The story is what carries the film as a young doctor, who is married, comes to terms with his hidden homosexuality when he meets a patient who is out. Two types of gay men are explored in this film; the dedicated relationship type and the more promiscuous kind. You really feel for all the characters in the film as the subject matter is still one that many in the world find themselves in.
The movie itself was rare for many years and now it finally has a home on DVD. The film is presented in widescreen format and comes with the trailer. It is beautifully restored. The movie is the first Hollywood film to depict homosexuality in a positive light. Sit back and enjoy a true love story where there are really no winners.
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Classic but Great
Great movie and how life once was. Like history its eched in stone. Worth the money!
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cheesy, campy, classic...just the thing
I saw this way back when it first came out, and like most folks I was just happy no one had to die at the end of it. Is it a great movie? No, but it is a slice of life and time that does play more like a Lifetime movie, but both guys look good and all involved seem to get a happy ending of their own, which is nice. I will always be a Michael Ontkean fan, he is just hot.
