Bernard Slade adapted his own play which debuted in 1975 initially with Charles Grodin and Ellen Burstyn, who reprised her performance for the film opposite Alan Alda. The film begins badly, with a montage of a couple meeting in 1951 to a rather crap love song duet, something I think you should never do, but picks up after that, when they are seen reuniting every five years or so. Black and white photo montages fill in the years in between.
Didn't love Marvin Hamlisch's music; nicely photographed by Robert Surtees (then about 72, his last film) and edited by Sheldon Kahn.
The Sea Shadows Inn is now the Heritage House resort in Little River, California.
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