The Four Seasons

1981

Action / Comedy / Drama

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 75% · 19 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 75% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 7435 7.4K

vacation divorce

Plot summary

Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.

Director

Alan Alda Photo
Alan Alda

Top cast

Bess Armstrong Photo
Bess Armstrong as Ginny Newley
Carol Burnett Photo
Carol Burnett as Kate Burroughs
Len Cariou Photo
Len Cariou as Nick Callan
Sandy Dennis Photo
Sandy Dennis as Anne Callan
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990.72 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 47 min
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990.75 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 47 min
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1.8 GB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
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1.8 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 47 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by alexandraslate

A Favorite of an Alda Fan....

I was 14 the first time I saw this film in 1981 on HBO. I found it to be a totally engrossing movie that made one actually think about the complexities of life and relationships other than just your typical movie fare of sex and violence. They just don't make movies like this one anymore, and probably never will again (which is sad). Like Vivaldi's Four Seasons, the cast of characters cover a range of emotions; through anger, grief, and denial of the departure of the spouse of one of the couples who vacation quarterly together and finally acceptance when a new and (younger) addition enters the picture.The banter between the couples is unusually intelligent, and hysterically funny in some scenes. Jack Weston's character Danny is my favorite. Alda's Jack describes him in one scene as being hypochondriachal, which is the understatement of the year. He seems to feel that he is dying at any given moment of any number of diseases. Death to him is imminent, and his portrayal of this emotion is brilliantly funny because of the sincerity with which he tries to convince the others of the validity of his fears. I loved the scene where he and his wife Claudia have an arguement and she offers up the suggestion once too often that her Italian heritage is the reason for her behavior and Danny cuts loose on her. He gets so into it, that it doesn't seem to matter to the director that he flubbed the line where he's screaming out the window that "I'm sick of your I'm your Italian", when he really meant to say "I'm sick of your I'm Italian". So the scene is left in.The scene where Jack and Kate laugh their a**e* off on the boat one night while listening to Nick and Ginny having sex is also hysterical. Really great movie. Highly recommended for people as desperate as I am for some intelligent and thought provoking entertainment.
Reviewed by vincentlynch-moonoi 6 / 10

Yawn

To be honest, I'm not always the biggest of fan of ensemble casts, and wasn't here, either. This is one of those movies that doesn't seem to go anywhere but exactly where you think it will go: It starts out with 3 couples fairly happily vacationing together. Without much thought you know what the trend is going to be -- the one or more of the relationships will fail, and that as the vacations progress someone will get dumped, others will stick, tensions will rise. The only question left is who will stick, who will exit, what will the tensions be about. So in terms of plot...yawn. And, some of the scenarios seem rather forced. Jumping into a lake in cold weather. Really? Hardly being phased after breaking through the ice and spending quite a few minutes in freezing water? Especially when you're an overweight unhealthy man? That's not to say that I didn't like the film, because I did enjoy several of the individual performances. Alan Alda is someone I enjoy watching every once in a while; more a television than a movie actor; but he always seems sort of the same in everything he's in. That's why I enjoy him occasionally. Interesting to see Carol Burnett is a more serious role, and although television was clearly her medium, I wish we had seen her in more movie roles. Len Cariou...seems like a decent actor, but not handsome enough to be "up there"; every once in a while he turned in a good performance worth noting; not sure this was one of those times, although he does "okay". Jack Weston, an actor I had pretty much forgotten about, but he was always reliable and is so here. Rita Moreno is here...and that's about all I can say about her in this film; they don't give her that much to do, even though she is one of the 6 main characters. Sandy Dennis was one of those quirky actresses that was just right in certain types of roles, and she does nicely here. I would actually give highest marks here to Bess Armstrong; very good at playing naive, but building to an understanding of that.Okay, so I watched the film. Once. Is enough.
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