Just Me and You (1978)

Name: Just Me and You
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, TV Movie
Released: 1978-05-22
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Louise Lasser, Charles Grodin, Julie Bovasso, Paul Fix, Michael Alldredge

Just Me and You (1978), directed by John Erman, starring Louise Lasser and Charles Grodin.

05/22/1978 BR Comedy, Drama, Romance and TV Movie 1h 40m

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Two oddballs on a collision course with romance.

Synopsis

A salesman travels cross country with a quirky New Yorker.

John ErmanDirector
Tina HirschEditing
William S. GilmoreProducer
Fred KarlinOriginal music

About the film

Just Me and You is a 1978 American made-for-television comedy film written by Louise Lasser and directed by John Erman.

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Just Me and You is a 1978 American made-for-television comedy film written by Louise Lasser and directed by John Erman.

Plot

The film is a gentle comedy about two strangers with personal family issues who drive across wintery America after Michael Lindsay (Charles Grodin) offers a lift to Jane Alofsin (Lasser) and how they gradually get to know each other. Jane is a little neurotic and very indecisive while Charles is more focused.

Cast

Louise Lasser as Jane Alofsin

Charles Grodin as Michael Lindsay

Michael Alldredge as Max

Miriam Byrd-Nethery as Connie

Noble Willingham as Gas Station Owner

Julie Bovasso as Waitress

Paul Fix as The Old Man

Dave Thomas

Production

Lasser wrote the script in the period between shooting the Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman pilot and filming the series. "My biggest fear was that I would write like Woody but I came out sounding like me," she said.

Lasser said she "wasn't a writer" but wrote 300 pages of "dialogue scenes" between a boy and a girl. These were read by Deanne Barkley who was developing script for the Robert Stigwood Organization. She suggested Lasser write up her pages as a script and gave her the basic plot line. Lasser rewrote the script accordingly.

Mary Hartman became a big success. Lasser wanted to move into writing and directing. She quit the show and took five months to recover. She then signed a three-picture deal with NBC, to write and star in one film, star in another and direct in a third. The first film was Just Me and You.

Deanne Barkley had moved to NBC by this time. She got Lasser to rewrite the project under the guidance of Roger Gimbel of EMI TV. She worked on the male part to get the interest of Charles Grodin. "It was the part I wanted to play," she said later. "I love that part. The woman - I don't understand her."

The film was shot entirely in California, with various locations such as Joshua Tree doubling for the rest of the US.

Reception

The Los Angeles Times said the film contained "the funniest outpouring of dialogue this side of Woody Allen."

References

External links

Just Me and You at IMDb

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Trivia

It premiered on May 22, 1978, a Monday.
It runs 1h40 — a typical feature length.
This film's quiz has 12 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.