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A writer for a greeting card company discovers the struggles and tribulations of living alone after breaking up with his unfaithful girlfriend.A writer for a greeting card company discovers the struggles and tribulations of living alone after breaking up with his unfaithful girlfriend.A writer for a greeting card company discovers the struggles and tribulations of living alone after breaking up with his unfaithful girlfriend.
Joyce Brothers
- Joyce Brothers
- (as Dr. Joyce Brothers)
Dan Hannafin
- Park Guard
- (as Daniel P. Hannafin)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSteve Martin claims that he and Charles Grodin improvised 30% of their dialogue.
- GoofsThe mechanical chess game moves its rook and says, "Queen Rook to Queen Seven," taking Warren's queen, then says "Checkmate." The space it moves the rook to is King 7, not Queen 7. It is also not checkmate because there is no piece guarding the rook. Warren could have taken the rook with his king.
- Quotes
Warren Evans: I don't like to take naps. I don't like to wake up more than once a day. 'Cause when I first wake up I get that shock of who I am and everything. I... I really don't like to do that more than once a day.
Larry Hubbard: Ya.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: Special Show: At the Cassette Store, Part 3 (1986)
- SoundtracksLove Comes Without Warning
Performed by America
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
Lyrics by John Bettis
Produced by Matt McCauley
Courtesy of Capitol Records
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Starts out very funny, but then it just goes a bit flat.
This movie started out with a bang when I first saw it as a child. I was really disappointed when I could not watch it in its entirety. So when I had a chance to rent it, I jumped at the chance and I am rather sad I did. The first half was still funny, but all the stuff I missed was sadly worth missing. Not that it was all bad mind you, there was a chuckle or two in this part of the movie, but nothing compared to the laughs found in the first half of the film from when Steve finds out his girlfriend has been cheating on him, to the restaurant, to the strange jogging using fake sweat. Then a bit before he writes his book on how to be a lonely guy the movie really slows down its pace and it becomes a bit to sentimental at times, while still showing a bit of the zaniness that made the first half of the film really good. The story is about a lonely guy who starts off with a girlfriend, but ends up alone in rather funny fashion. He makes friends with another lonely guy played very well by Charles Grodin and they proceed to try and help each other out. Like I said you get some great scenes during this time and Steve meets up with a girl he for some reason cannot hook up with due to one problem after another. So in the end an okay movie, that just needed some of that energy from the first half of the film to carry over to the second.
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- Aaron1375
- Jan 6, 2010
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- Also known as
- Ein Single kommt selten allein
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,718,573
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,072,130
- Jan 29, 1984
- Gross worldwide
- $5,718,573
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