Making Love (1982)

Great Movie but 10 Years too late!

This is a great Movie and a good song to boot! It should have been one that could have been told 10 years sooner in 72. But good just the same. Can you believe Goldie Hawn was suppose to play the Jackson part. It would have been too funny! May 12, 2008

" A Beautiful Love Story"

Way before "Brokeback Mounatin" proved that a love story between 2 men could work in Hollywood "Making Love" was a movie that explored the topic. Wonderfully produced and acted "Making Love" has not aged. The story is what carries the film as a young doctor, who is married, comes to terms with his hidden homosexuality when he meets a patient who is out. Two types of gay men are explored in this film; the dedicated relationship type and the more promiscuous kind. You really feel for all the characters in the film as the subject matter is still one that many in the world find themselves in.
The movie itself was rare for many years and now it finally has a home on DVD. The film is presented in widescreen format and comes with the trailer. It is beautifully restored. The movie is the first Hollywood film to depict homosexuality in a positive light. Sit back and enjoy a true love story where there are really no winners. March 8, 2008

Classic but Great

Great movie and how life once was. Like history its eched in stone. Worth the money! March 7, 2008

cheesy, campy, classic...just the thing

I saw this way back when it first came out, and like most folks I was just happy no one had to die at the end of it. Is it a great movie? No, but it is a slice of life and time that does play more like a Lifetime movie, but both guys look good and all involved seem to get a happy ending of their own, which is nice. I will always be a Michael Ontkean fan, he is just hot. March 4, 2008

A Portrait of Unrequited Love

"Making Love" is a portrait of unrequited love. After their first torrid, sexual encounter, Zack (Michael Ontkean) fell in love with Bart (Harry Hamlin), but Bart did not want a relationship with him (or anyone for that matter). Claire (Kate Jackson) was married to and in love with Zack, but Zack revealed he was attracted to men and no longer desired her sexually--the perfect setting for a drama about unrequited love.

I thought the three leading characters turned in wooden performances. I felt the acting was best during the last five minutes of the film when, after years of separation, Zack (Ontkean) and Claire (Jackson) met at the funeral of a mutual friend. When Zack told Claire he had to leave soon to return to New York (he was a doctor at a prestigious hospital), she invited him to follow her home on his way to the airport so that he could meet her husband (an architect) and young son. Zack accepted her invitation, which was good because he saw for himself that Claire had indeed survived their break-up and found love once again. She had married a good man--Larry--one who cherished her and gave her the child she desired. Larry assured Zack that he would take good care of Claire.

Claire walked Zack to his car as he was leaving for the airport. She asked him if he had found someone special as well. He told her he had--another man. When she asked him if he was happy, Zack replied that he was. At this point, Claire reached up and gently caressed his cheek. It was such an intimate, bittersweet moment. While looking into each others' eyes, Zack moved his face into Claire's hand with the same tenderness and affection he displayed when they were together. It was apparent that, although there was no longer a sexual connection between them, they still loved each other and were now free emotionally to move on with their lives. This is the part where I break down in uncontrollable tears each time I watch this movie. I bought the DVD so that I could rewind the last five minutes over and over again and have a good cry. (Women love a good cry every now and then; it's so cathartic.)

I initially gave "Making Love" three stars, but after viewing it in Spanish with English subtitles, I feel it rates at least four. The Spanish dialogue is better-acted than the English version. Lastly, Michael Ontkean is so outrageously handsome that if someone were to make a two-hour film of him just standing before a camera, I would be the first one in line to watch it. I would buy the DVD, too. December 27, 2007

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