Same Time, Next Year (1978) Movie Overview

Same Time, Next Year is a 1978 American comedy film directed by Robert Mulligan. The screenplay by Bernard Slade is based on his 1975 play of the same title. The film opens in 1951 at an inn located on the Northern California coast. Doris (Ellen Burstyn) is a 24-year-old housewife from Oakland, George (Alan Alda) a 27-year-old accountant from New Jersey. They meet at dinner, have an affair, and then agree to meet once a year to rekindle the sparks they experience at their first meeting, despite the fact both are happily married with six children between them. Over the course of the next two dozen years, they develop an emotional intimacy deeper than what one would expect to find between two people meeting for a clandestine relationship just once a year. During the time they spend with each other, they discuss the births, deaths, including George’s son Michael dying in Vietnam, which changes George politically, and marital problems each experiences at home, while they adapt themselves to the social changes affecting their lives. Exteriors for the film were shot at the Heritage House Inn in Little River, California. The shell of the cottage was built on a temporary foundation overloo… Source

• Same Time, Next Year Movie Details
• Director: Robert Mulligan
• Tagline: They couldn't have celebrated happier anniversaries if they were married to each other.
• Country: USA
• Run Time: 119 min
• Genre: Comedy , Drama , Romance

• Cast Overview
• Ellen Burstyn as Doris
• Alan Alda as George
• Ivan Bonar as Chalmers
• Bernie Kuby as Waiter
• Cosmo Sardo as Second Waiter
• David Northcutt as Pilot #1

Same Time, Next Year Movie Review from New York Times

Based on Bernard Slade’s Broadway play of the same name, this film is about George, a married New Jersey accountant (Alan Alda), and Doris, a housewife (Ellen Burstyn). The two accidentally meet in a Californian country inn in 1951. They have an affair, which they continue for the next 25 years, meeting only once a year for a weekend getaway at the… Source

Same Time, Next Year Movie Details from Imdb

A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner. Although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year. Originally a stage play, the two are seen changing, years apart, always in the same room in different sce… Source

Same Time, Next Year (1978) from YouTube