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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Turner Home Ent
Salesrank: 11003
Released: February 5, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
BEING FREE AND EASY PROVES NEITHER FREE NOR EASY WHEN MARRIED EXECUTIVE GEORGE SEGAL AND DIVORCED DESIGNER GLENDA JACKSON STRIKE ROMANTIC SPARKS. SPECIAL FEATURES: SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH: CAS/DIRECTOR FILM HIGHLIGHTS: FIRST TIME WIDESCREEN VIDEO RELEASE AND TRAILER.
Description of A Touch of Class:
It's tame in hindsight, but A Touch of Class brought much-needed prestige to the romantic-comedy trend of the early and mid 1970s. Glenda Jackson won an Oscar® for her performance as a savvy London divorcée who falls in love with married insurance agent George Segal, and the film surprised critics by earning a Best Picture nomination as well. Chemistry's the key, with Jackson and Segal equally adept at bickering and making up (and she even has a gay male friend, long before that became a genre cliché). What begins as a routine affair--complicated by a wide spectrum of lightly comedic pitfalls--ends with mutual love and the dilemma it creates. Writer-director Melvin Frank keeps the dialogue briskly intelligent, and while he can't match Neil Simon word for word, Touch mines the same romantic territory that was perfected in Simon's later hit The Goodbye Girl. Consider them a fine double bill, with A Touch of Class ranking a respectable second. --Jeff Shannon
A Touch of Class Reviews:
Funny story of the man and the mistress 
2009-02-09 - This money shows the reality of having a mistress and not the glamorized version we see these days. this movie will keep you laughing throughout the whole movie
My favorite Glenda Jackson film
2007-11-14 - This is one of my favorite romantic comedies, for several reasons: good writing, fine acting, London in the early 70's, and Glenda Jackson. It evokes a time which was memorable for those of us who were born and raised during the turbulent 60's. After a decade of such angst, society seemed to regain a bit of self-deprecating humor with the dawn of the 70's. It is precisely that brand of humor that I find appealing in this film. The dialogue is sharp, sophisticated, and has the great good fortune to be delivered by two fine actors; Glenda Jackson being especially deft, tossing out acidly witty, intelligent retorts with withering English stoicism. She is clearly the "class" in the film.
The story is a familiar one: divorced woman meets charming married man, they start having an affair and end up falling genuinely in love. The ending is inevitable. But this well-trod material is elevated by the intelligence and humour of both script and performance.
Yes, it is "dated" -- the clothes, the coifs, phrases such as, "He's my male secretary", the rather pointed portrayal of a gay man -- but for those who like to wallow in nostalgia every once in a while, those things are positives rather than negatives. I highly recommend this movie to fans of Glenda Jackson, London, and witty dialogue.
Still Holds Up 
2007-05-07 - George Seagal and Glenda Jackson are wonderful in this comedy about extramarital affairs. You also get to see a very young Paul Sorvino.
Should've Been on the AFI's list of "Top 100 Romantic Films"
2002-11-10 - I saw this movie when it first came out in the 70's and have seen it many times on and off for years.
The movie is funny, but what makes it work is the two stars. George Segal (who never looked better) is in fine comedic form, and he and Glenda Jackson complement each other perfectly. She was especially singled out for critical acclaim -- some people compared her to Katharine Hepburn in Hepburn's comedic roles.
The movie also affords a look at London in the early 70's.
Because the actors work so well together, I would've liked a different (happier) ending for the movie. Still, after thirty years, "A Touch of Class" remains very watchable and poignant -- largely because of the two stars.
creepy and disturbing 
2002-07-15 - I did not like this movie. I know that times have changed and it would be revisionist to hold this movie to millennium standards of sexual conduct and infidelity. Nonetheless, I found it very disturbing: his lack of concern for his wife and children, how the wife was unsympathetic and one dimensional, and how absolutely de rigueur it was in the sixties for married men to have "a bit on the side." And what about her kids? apart from the first scene we never see them again; she instead seems to spend all her time cooking and keeping house for a married man. I'm not a prude, really, but this film left a bad taste in my mouth.
