Same Time, Next Year

Same Time, Next Year is a 1978 American comedy film directed by Robert Mulligan. The screenplay by Bernard Slade is based on his 1975 play of the same title. The film opens in 1951 at an inn located on the Northern California coast. Doris (Ellen Burstyn) is a 24-year-old housewife from Oakland, George (Alan Alda) a 27-year-old accountant from New Jersey. They meet at dinner, have an affair, and then agree to meet once a year to rekindle the spark... more

Same Time, Next Year is a 1978 American comedy film directed by Robert Mulligan. The screenplay by Bernard Slade is based on his 1975 play of the same title. The film opens in 1951 at an inn located on the Northern California coast. Doris (Ellen Burstyn) is a 24-year-old housewife from Oakland, George (Alan Alda) a 27-year-old accountant from New Jersey. They meet at dinner, have an affair, and then agree to meet once a year to rekindle the sparks they experience at their first meeting, despite the fact both are happily married with six children between them. Over the course of the next two dozen years, they develop an emotional intimacy deeper than what one would expect to find between two people meeting for a clandestine relationship just once a year. During the time they spend with each other, they discuss the births, deaths, and marital problems each is experiencing at home, while they adapt themselves to the social changes affecting their lives. Exteriors for the film were shot... less