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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 353539" data-attributes="member: 33">It&#039;s My Turn (1980)<img src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BM2RkOGZkYjAtZDc5OC00NTdlLWE4NGItZTYzMWRjMGE1NzFhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 337px" />It&#039;s My Turn is one of my favourite Diana Ross songs and I was gifted a copy of the vinyl single back in the 1980s. The back of the cover has a version of the film poster and I have always had a fascination about this film because if it wasn&#039;t for the song I wouldn&#039;t know if existed. Now having watched it, it&#039;s not Oscar worthy material but it&#039;s an enjoyable enough piece of entertainment. It&#039;s a romcom of middle-aged people which if it wasn&#039;t for the 2 lead actors and Diana Ross singing the the theme song, you could easily mistake this for being a made for TV film or something made for the Lifestyle of Hallmark channels, rather than a film that had a cinema release.The story is about maths professor Kate (Jill Claybourgh) who goes to New York for the wedding of her father. There is a pre-wedding dinner for the families of the bride and groom where she meets Ben (Michael Douglas), the son of her future step-mother. There&#039;s a lovely scene when her father says he wants to dance with his &quot;favourite girl&quot; and Kate immediately stands up only to realise he means his future wife. To save her blushes, Ben gets up and offers to dance with her. He dances with her vigorously and throws her around the dance floor and Jill Clayburgh&#039;s reactions are delight and really funny. In a following scene, the stop off at an arcade and they are both very competitive when then play various games, especially table tennis. Kate has a different excuse for losing every point: questioning whether it&#039;s a regulation size table, her clothes are too tight, the room is too hot, and so on. It&#039;s a funny scene and Jill Clayburgh is really good in it, in fact she is wonderful in the whole film and really funny. I was surprised that I hadn&#039;t heard of her before, especially according to Google she had 2 Oscar nominations under her belt, and sadly she died at the relatively young age of 66. Kate and Ben embark on a romance, even though they are both already in relationship and through various scenes of comedy and drama we watch them get closer before they face the dilemma of what to do when the time comes for them to go home. It&#039;s not a particularly intelligent film, nor is it Shakespeare, but it&#039;s a witty and entertaining story that introduced me to the wonderful Jill Clayburgh.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 353539, member: 33"] [B]It's My Turn (1980)[/B] [IMG width="337px"]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BM2RkOGZkYjAtZDc5OC00NTdlLWE4NGItZTYzMWRjMGE1NzFhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_.jpg[/IMG] [I]It's My Turn[/I] is one of my favourite Diana Ross songs and I was gifted a copy of the vinyl single back in the 1980s. The back of the cover has a version of the film poster and I have always had a fascination about this film because if it wasn't for the song I wouldn't know if existed. Now having watched it, it's not Oscar worthy material but it's an enjoyable enough piece of entertainment. It's a romcom of middle-aged people which if it wasn't for the 2 lead actors and Diana Ross singing the the theme song, you could easily mistake this for being a made for TV film or something made for the Lifestyle of Hallmark channels, rather than a film that had a cinema release. The story is about maths professor Kate (Jill Claybourgh) who goes to New York for the wedding of her father. There is a pre-wedding dinner for the families of the bride and groom where she meets Ben (Michael Douglas), the son of her future step-mother. There's a lovely scene when her father says he wants to dance with his "favourite girl" and Kate immediately stands up only to realise he means his future wife. To save her blushes, Ben gets up and offers to dance with her. He dances with her vigorously and throws her around the dance floor and Jill Clayburgh's reactions are delight and really funny. In a following scene, the stop off at an arcade and they are both very competitive when then play various games, especially table tennis. Kate has a different excuse for losing every point: questioning whether it's a regulation size table, her clothes are too tight, the room is too hot, and so on. It's a funny scene and Jill Clayburgh is really good in it, in fact she is wonderful in the whole film and really funny. I was surprised that I hadn't heard of her before, especially according to Google she had 2 Oscar nominations under her belt, and sadly she died at the relatively young age of 66. Kate and Ben embark on a romance, even though they are both already in relationship and through various scenes of comedy and drama we watch them get closer before they face the dilemma of what to do when the time comes for them to go home. It's not a particularly intelligent film, nor is it Shakespeare, but it's a witty and entertaining story that introduced me to the wonderful Jill Clayburgh. [/QUOTE]

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