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Same Time, Next Year

Beginning in 1951, neurotic married accountant George and naive married homemaker Doris have a one-night stand and then meet at the same place once each year. As years go by, they observe ch... Read all Beginning in 1951, neurotic married accountant George and naive married homemaker Doris have a one-night stand and then meet at the same place once each year. As years go by, they observe changes in each other and their relationship. Beginning in 1951, neurotic married accountant George and naive married homemaker Doris have a one-night stand and then meet at the same place once each year. As years go by, they observe changes in each other and their relationship.

Robert Mulligan
Bernard Slade
Ellen Burstyn
79 User reviews
20 Critic reviews
1 win & 7 nominations total

George Peters

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Trivia Ellen Burstyn won the Best Actress Academy Award for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) while performing in the "Same Time, Next Year" play on Broadway. In the same year, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress for the play. Ironically, Burstyn received both awards at the same time in the same week. Burstyn is one of only two actresses to win both awards in the same year. The other actress was Audrey Hepburn who won a best Actress Tony for "Ondine" in the same year she won an Oscar for Roman Holiday (1953) .
Goofs The intervals are mostly five years, except after 1966 it skips to 1972, as this marks their 21st anniversary. However, in the 1977 meeting, George brags that he saved Doris and Harry's marriage "six years ago" - in 1971, not 1972, which was the actual meeting in which George pretended to be a counseling priest.

George : When I touched you just now, I started to get excited. What kind of a pervert am I? Staring at a 200-pound pregnant woman and I'm getting hot!

Doris : Well, I'll tell you something. That is about the nicest thing that anybody's said to me in months.

Connections Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: James Garner/Ellen Burstyn/David Letterman/Rod Dornsife (1978)
Soundtracks The Last Time I Felt Like This Music by Marvin Hamlisch Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman Performed by Johnny Mathis and Jane Olivor

User reviews 79

One of the best romance movies, and funny too.

Jan 11, 1999
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March 8, 1979 (United Kingdom)
United States
Iduce godine, u isto vrijeme
The Heritage House Resort, 5200 N Hwy 1, Little River, California, USA (Exterior ocean front scenes.)
Universal Pictures
The Mirisch Corporation
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$19,703,082
Runtime 1 hour 59 minutes

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Same Time, Next Year Reviews

Well done filmed play absorbs us in the characters' lives.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2010

It's funny, sad, unexpected and moving. Just like life and its relationships

Full Review | Nov 17, 2007

An overlong, tiresome, excessively theatrical comedy, based on Bernard Slade's play, about a 25 year tryst of a married man and married woman (Ellen Burstyn and Alan Alda.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Sep 21, 2007