40 Carats (1973)

When her car breaks down while vacationing in Greece, a middle aged woman (Liv Ullmann) spends the night on a beach with a much younger man (Edward Albert). When back in Manhattan, she is shocked when her teenage daughter (Deborah Raffin) is picked up by a date ... who turns out to be the young man she spent the night with on the beach! Based on the Broadway play by Jay Presson Allen and directed by Milton Katselas (BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE). The film version changes the play's less positive ending (which I'm glad about). It's not a particularly good play and the film version is hampered by Liv Ullmann in the central role. Ullmann is one of the world's great actresses but a comedienne she's not and the majority of the film is a light comedy. Ullmann has problems delivering a quip that Doris Day would have slam dunked! She's much more comfortable in the film's final moments which are more dramatic and it's clear she's on familiar territory. With Gene Kelly, Binnie Barnes, Nancy Walker, Natalie Schafer, Rosemary Murphy (in the film's best performance), Don Porter and Billy Green Bush.