Rating:  -
This has been one of my favorite movies for a long time, so I finally bought it. No falsehoods here - the relationships portrayed are so real that the viewer wants to grab the characters like old friends and counsel them. This film leaves us all needing to re-evaluate what is going on with our own lives.
Rating:  -
The title, The Only Thrill, doesn't fit this film, which is about a decades-long bittersweet relationship between the characters played by Diane Keaton and Sam Shepherd. While it's obvious to the viewer that these two eccentrics are soul mates, it takes them most of the film to come to the same conclusion. A secondary plot involves her daughter and his son, whose own relationship begins to mirror that of their parents.
This slow moving, but satisfying film, with all the missed opportunities between the couple, can be frustrating to watch at times, but the performances of Diane Keaton and Sam Shepherd make it worth seeing more than once. They also made a great pair in the film Baby Boom.
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