I just saw Same Time Next Year, and I loved it. However one thing that wasn't explained in the movie is Doris's new baby. Did she tell her husband that HE was the father ? If so, don't you think that was kind of deceitful ? Any comments, let me know, thank you, Jim.

This will be a short review of "Same Time, Next Year (1978)." I tuned in after the credits, but it was obvious that this was probably some play turned into a movie. I double checked online, and it was. I really didn't enjoy the screen adaptation because the acting seemed very stiff, and found it annoying that the Doris and George Peters characters would answer the phone when it rang. You would think that they would have gotten separate rooms for each other instead of sharing the same cabin. From doing research about the Broadway production, Charles Grodin originated the character of George. From Grodin's past roles,he would have been perfect for the screen version, but hey Alan Alda was one of the biggest TV stars at the time so why not get him to bolster the box office right?I would have enjoyed the stage plan version, because that's what it was written for. Putting this two person play on the big screen loses the intimacy that it probably had on stage with a live audience.Maybe if I was involved in a similar affair or in an "amicable marriage (you are stuck because you have children and no prenup, and other potential mates are taken) as both characters I would have enjoyed this film more because I could have related with the characters more.

This was a movie that should have been a 21 minute sitcom episode. The minute I heard that sickeningly sweet, syrupy song sung by Johnny Mathis (Mr. Wobbly Vibrato himself) and Jane Oliver I knew this movie was doomed. The other thing is I just don't find anything remotely romantic about Alda and Burstyn. When Ellen Burstyn's character showed up in her hippie phase I just rolled my eyes and thought what BAD acting. I bet both Burstyn and Alda were very self satisfied with their performances. In the final scene, it is just one beige color after another. Ellen is wearing beige, Alan Alda is wearing beige, the furniture is beige. Even Ellen's wig is beige. I guess that kind of sums this movie up for me. It is a very beige movie.The only costume I liked on (blonde-wigged) Ellen Burstyn was the gorgeous black dress she wore with the rhinestone brooch and her lovely shiny dangle earrings. This, I believe, was their second meeting. Unfortunately for me, this is the one thing that I liked about the movie. Yes sadly I liked her black dress. That was it.

This is where it all begins, the preclusion, the preliminary- "Yes, I like sunsets on the cape". "Yes,I love the ocean breeze". "Yes, I like innocuous jokes about unexplained human shortcomings".. "Most of all, I love this apparently kindred spirit we have with regards to being cavalier about commitment".. "Yes, I'm bored!" "Yes! I'm smug and ambiguous!" "Yes! I'm Italian and you're Irish, so if we had kids together, not only would they learn how to love life, they would also know how to survive in it!" Let's give it the old college try, shall we! Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn play a socially derivative couple who both love each other because both of them love their spouses! Originally a stage play, "Same Time Next Year" articulates a distinct form of human emotion that is identifiable to any person who becomes cajoled by individual adversity. Infidelity became the necessary prescription for conducting their regimented lives properly. As time went on, the social changes in American behavior wound up being the antagonist for these two "lovebirds" to appropriate their persistence for this precariously prevailing situation. Eventually, their resilience required a modicum of romantic interlude to sustain the tedium of their auspiciously monotonous marital routine. The bittersweet amelioration which both Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn worked so painstakingly hard to attain, ultimately becomes an utterly acute reflection of mandatory human error. Basically, the audience gets it, or, at least, they should! Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn are very believable in this film! Richard Mulligan, the director, does a remarkable job at itemizing the comedic chaos to this movie. The cinematography is wonderful! The song: "The Last Time I Felt Like This", was a blockbuster hit for weeks on end back in 1978. A definite thumbs up! See this '70's classic, should you have the impetuous yearning to engage in a corrupt candor for realistically entertaining yourself!