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- 1981
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 43 m
- 1981
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 43 m
Summary A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
Directed By: Michael Apted
Written By: Lawrence Kasdan
- 1981
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 43 m
- 1981
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 43 m
Continental Divide
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Summary A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
Directed By: Michael Apted
Written By: Lawrence Kasdan
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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29% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
64
71% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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The movie itself is fun: goofy, softhearted, fussy, sometimes funny, and with the sort of happy ending that columnists like to find for their stories and hardly ever find themselves.
A refreshing fall film. [18 Sep 1981, p.19]
For a picture that you can't really believe for a second, Continental Divide still comes off as a reasonably engaging entertainment thanks to some lively performances and a liberal dose of laughs throughout the script.
Mr. Apted has made this a sweet, engaging movie that audiences will very much want to see end well.
Continental Divide should have marked Belushi's tentative, encouraging first step towards quirkier, more substantive roles and films. Instead it, and Neighbors were more of a dead end.
Kasdan has eliminated all the conflicting interests and the psychological impediments to a happy marriage, leaving the physical separation as the only obstacle. There's nothing left for the movie to be about except how the hero and the heroine can conquer space. (And at the end, the pictured fudges even this.)
This unlikely love story never really pays off, largely due to Lawrence Kasdan's contrived script. To their credit, a very subdued Belushi and an appealing Brown do their best to add a patina of light charm to this minor effort, and largely they succeed.
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