1970 - LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS, a fun 1970's comedy

 A very entertaining 1970's rom/com. This film has a real feel for the time and cultural attitudes of that screwy period.  A young couple who have been living together out of wedlock (or in sin) as they used to say, decide to make their arrangement legal by getting married.  This brings the two families of the bride and groom into the planning of the wedding.  There are a lot of humorous subplots involving brothers, mothers, fathers and boyfriends sorting out their goofy relationships which the wedding seems to bring out.

 The cast is a group of actors soon to be very popular, Bea Arthur, Richard S. Castellano, Gig Young, Diane Keaton, Cloris Leachman, Anna Meara, Jerry Stiller, Bonnie Bedelia and perennial character actor Harry Guardino.

 

The film featured a hit song "For All We Know,"  which I swear I heard at about every wedding I got dragged to in the 1970's.  That song was alternated with the love theme from The Godfather which I heard at every other wedding I got dragged to.

The funny screenplay was written by Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor who really didn't write many comedies for some reason.  The running time is 104 minutes.