A forty-something college professor (Anthony Hopkins) admits to his wife (Shirley MacLane) that he is having an affair with one of his students (Bo Derek). So what does the jilted wife do while the professor and his charge weekend in Montreal? She has a fling with the transient handyman (Michael Brandon) who stops by to renovate the couple’s library.
Now that it’s winter break, which couple gets the family’s ski cabin for the week? They both do! Hopkins and Derek downstairs, MacLane and Brandon upstairs…and hilarity ensues! Well, not really; it’s pretty tedious, frankly. Derek gets sad and frustrated, and runs home to Boston. Hopkins hitches a ride with the only farmer delivering live chickens and pigs from Vermont to Cambridge, confronts the co-ed’s father (Edward Winter), who is a retired professor (and fellow philanderer) running a lobster farm out of his Beacon Hill brownstone. Bo reluctantly goes back to Vermont with Anthony on the condition that lobster dad comes too…and if this interests you at all, feel free to watch it for yourself because I refuse to give away the ending.
Anyway here are some scenes from the film which was shot in and around Williamstown…not including a topless Bo Derek for which, if that’s why you tune in, you’ll only need to watch the opening credits…apparently they were re-shot after the rest of the film to capitalize on the interest in Ms. Derek’s nude figure.
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