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Just Tell Me What You Want is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Lumet. It stars Ali MacGraw, Peter Weller and Alan King, and was also Myrna Loy's final film. The screenplay by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from her novel, won her the David di Donatello Award for Best Screenplay of a Foreign Film.
Sidney Lumet's underrated caustic comedy Just Tell Me What You Want is one of the final gasps of the American cinema of the 1970s, the decade in which it was made, and another example of what was, in retrospect, the last Golden Age of American moviemaking.
The whole cast, indeed, is plausible as real people, and that’s what makes this movie somewhat unusual. There’s a whole genre of movies about the sex lives of the rich and famous, and the actors in them usually seem a little smaller than the lives they’re playing.
When an autocratic tycoon (Alan King) — married in-name-only to an alcoholic wife (Dina Merrill) — discovers that his long-time mistress (Ali MacGraw) has fallen in love with a penniless playwright (Peter Weller), he immediately sets out to ruin both her career and her finances. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Ali MacGraw Films.
Just Tell Me What You Want is a 1980 American romantic comedy movie directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Ali MacGraw, Myrna Loy, Judy Kaye, Alan King, Keenan Wynn, Joseph Maher, Peter Weller. It was distributed by Warner Bros. .
Just Tell Me What You Want ★★½ 1980 (R) A wealthy, self-made married man finally drives his longtime mistress away when he refuses to let her take over the operation of a failing movie studio he has acquired. After she falls for another man, the tycoon does everything he can to win her back.
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New York City corporate head Max Herschel (Alan King) maintains a miserable marriage and several ongoing affairs, the most serious of which involves ambitious TV producer Bones Burton (Ali MacGraw).
- Comedy, Drama
