Just_the_Way_You_Are_(1984_film)

<i>Just the Way You Are</i> (1984 film)

Just the Way You Are (1984 film)

1984 film by Édouard Molinaro

Just the Way You Are is a 1984 American comedy-drama film starring Kristy McNichol and Michael Ontkean and directed by Édouard Molinaro.

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Plot

Susan is a professional flautist in Philadelphia who has been handicapped since childhood and is forced to wear a leg brace to get around. She is all set to enter into a lavender marriage with her gay investment banker friend Frank in order to help him hide his sexuality so he can get ahead in business and get a big promotion, but decides not to when she realizes that the marriage won't meet her (or his) sexual needs. Shortly afterwards she accepts the offer to travel to Europe on a concert tour. While in Paris, she comes up with an idea to disguise her leg by putting it in a cast and travel on her own to the French Alps to be treated without pity. Not looking to find romance, Susan however has become the interest of Peter, a news photographer. They soon fall in love and Peter dumps his insufferable and narcissistic girlfriend Bobbie for her. Susan is forced to decide if she should tell Peter the truth about herself.

Main cast

Production

The movie was filmed in Toronto and in France.[2] In France, Kristy McNichol suffered an emotional breakdown while filming, and production had to be interrupted for a year while she recovered. Kristy said she was ready to go back to work within a month, but that shooting the snow scenes for the film's second-half would have to wait until the following winter. "It was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life getting through that film."[3]

Reference list

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    "Just the Way You Are". Box Office Mojo.
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    Lorraine LoBianco (2019). Just the Way You Are, TCM. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
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    Haller, Scot (1989-04-03). "Cover Story: 'I Was Crying All the Time' – Vol. 31 No. 13". PEOPLE. Retrieved 2019-05-05.


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