Married To It

Even with a lot of classics on his resume, the late Arthur Hiller had some movies that deserve to be forgotten. Case in point, 1993's Married To It.

The film focuses on three different couples. One hippie couple, Beau Bridges and Stockard Channing. One yuppie couple, Ron Silver and Cybil Sheppard. And a couple of newlyweds, Mary Stuart Masterson and Robert Sean Leonard. The three couples meet at a school function and even though they have totally different lifestyles, they instantly connect and become a part of eachothers lives.

Even though it has a terific cast, Married To It plays like a bad sitcom. It's hard to care for any of these couples, other than the Bridges/Channing couple. The cast tries hard to breath life into the proceedings, but the script is painfully dull and the problems these couples face seem like privileged problems that someone like myself can't relate to.

This movie sat on the shelf for a few years due to the bankruptcy at Orion and probably would have been better off as a direct to video release.

Luckily, this is one that probably won't be mentioned when speaking of the late Hiller's body of work.

It's available on dvd.