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Something in Common

Something in Common

1986TV Movie⏱️ 1h 42m
DramaRomance
6
IMDB Rating
134 votes

A young man and a nice woman in her forties fall in love. His mother goes berserk when he tells her about it and when the girlfriend comes to meet the mother, she wants to jump out of her skin. Accepting her son's choice won't be ...

Director
Glenn Jordan
Writers
N/A
Stars
Ellen Burstyn, Tuesday Weld, Patrick Cassidy
Release Date
November 2, 1986
Language
English
Country
United States
🎯 1
Nominations
💬 5
Reviews
📽️ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn
as Lynn Hollander
Tuesday Weld
Tuesday Weld
as Shelly Grant
Patrick Cassidy
Patrick Cassidy
as Nick Hollander
Don Murray
Don Murray
as Theo Fontana
Eli Wallach
Eli Wallach
as Norman Voss
Amanda Wyss
Amanda Wyss
as Laura Grant
Kenneth Kimmins
Kenneth Kimmins
as Eugene Skerritt
Marc Poppel
Marc Poppel
as Stephen Hollander
Terri Treas
Terri Treas
as Nancy Webster
Gertrude Flynn
Gertrude Flynn
as Aunt Celia

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Stereo
Color
Color
Production
Freyda Rothstein Productions, Litke/Grossbart Productions, New World Television

🏷️ Keywords

older woman younger man relationship

🎯 Categories

DramaRomance

⭐ Featured Review

Pleasantly Natured, Its Principal Merit Provided By The Cast.
by rsoonsa2006-01-06
6/10

"Essentially a soap opera, this formulary comedy drama made for television offers most of that medium's hackneyed elements, but the film moves along briskly due to the strong acting skills of its featured female players. Nick Hollander ( Patrick Cassidy), a 22 year old freshly graduated from college and now attending a cooking academy, resides with his widowed mother Lynn (Ellen Burstyn), an editor with a publishing house and, as the plot develops, it reminds a viewer of stretchout episodes from a TV series, only canned laughter missing among the familiar devices that make up the crust of ..."

💡 Did You Know?

Final film of Gertrude Flynn.

📖 Synopsis

A young man and a nice woman in her forties fall in love. His mother goes berserk when he tells her about it and when the girlfriend comes to meet the mother, she wants to jump out of her skin. Accepting her son's choice won't be ...