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Such Good Friends is a 1971 American black comedy-drama film directed by Otto Preminger and starring Dyan Cannon, Ken Howard, James Coco, Jennifer O'Neill and Laurence Luckinbill. The screenplay by Esther Dale (a pseudonym for Elaine May) is based on the novel of the same title by Lois Gould.
Mar 23, 1972 · Such Good Friends: Directed by Otto Preminger. With Dyan Cannon, James Coco, Jennifer O'Neill, Ken Howard. While awaiting the outcome of her husband's surgery, Julie Messinger discovers he has been having affairs.
- (703)
- Comedy, Drama
- Otto Preminger
- 1972-03-23
A dark and cynical comedy about the death of a successful art director and his affairs with many women. Dyan Cannon stars as his wife who struggles with grief, anger and betrayal in New York society.
Busy housewife Julie Messinger's (Dyan Cannon) only gripes about her art-director husband, Richard (Laurence Luckinbill), are that he's a little selfish and too committed to his job. It's not ...
- (6)
- Otto Preminger
- R
- Dyan Cannon
Based upon the novel by Lois Gould and adapted (under the pseudonym Esther Dale) by Elaine May, Such Good Friends focuses on Julie Messinger (played by Dyan Cannon), a woman with...
- 2 min
- 50.2K
- modcinema
Such Good Friends marked the first time Preminger worked with Erik, his son with famous striptease dancer Gypsy Rose Lee, whom Preminger legally adopted as an adult. The film received mixed reviews, several critics commenting on its excessive "vulgarity," including Burgess Meredith's brief nude scene and James Coco struggling with a girdle.
Julie Messinger is an intense woman who hides her wild emotions and desires under her conventional facade. Her husband Richard checks into the hospital for a simple mole removal that goes seriously wrong.
