More Than Friends (1978 TV Movie) User Reviews

It's When Alan Met Matty, it's Laverne and Meathead, it's two great directors in the 80's before they were great directors and she got a cigarette voice

[Jonathan-18 · 17 September 1999]

He's a Harry, she's hysterically funny. It's very like When Harry Met Sally... They live in new York, meet every couple of years. Friends, more than friends? He rambles, likes baseball, even sings from Oklahoma!. She likes to cuddle, she slaps him, she calls him at night and he rushes to her. You cannot hear Billy Crystal during the fortune cookie scene.

Penny Marshall is wonderful. Sarcastic jokes, the best delivery, they make a great team. Just a fun TV movie, successfully captures the years it's set in. Wonder why so few have seen it...

Great Movie for Everyone and Especially For Fans

[Irrational_Qtip · 11 February 2004]

I loved this movie! If you are a Penny Marshall/Rob Reiner fan, than this movie will be your most sacred treasures. Since I began being a fan of the once-twosome, I tried to get a hold of this movie. I REALLY wanted to see it. I was so obsessed, I bought old magazines off ebay that had them on the cover and silly fan things like that. Then, after like 4 years went by, I stopped thinking about it completely. Well, like a couple days ago I was online and stuff, when just for old-times-sakes searched the movie on TV-Now.com which I did every week for two years straight. Well, it came up that it was playing at 2:25 AM that very day I searched it! I got so excited, I almost vomited. Anyway, I had this great "vision" of it for so many years and let me tell you it totally met and exceeded my expectations! Now, even though the movie had a lot of things and ideas in it that was not at all relevent in tehir actual relationship, the general gist of the movie mirrored their actual relationship. Also, some little tidbits that one may have thought the writers (who one of was actually Rob Reiner) made up to make jokes, actually happened. Some of them include: 1- Penny's dandruff shampoo commercial. When she first came to Hollywood, she had a part as the dandruff-specked girl while Farrah Fawcutt was beautiful. 2- They are both from the same Bronx neighborhood. 3- Penny being bad in the play. Her first few jobs were...well, we'll just say she won't be getting any Oscars for them any time soon. 4 - Her playing a flight attendent. She played a flight attendent on one of her first jobs in The Bob Newhart Show. 5 - Them breaking up, them both finding other people, then getting back together, then living together for a while before marriage. 6- Maddy being bored with her life, preferring worklife over homelife 7 - Penny's mom being identical to Maddys and Rob/Alan's never caring. 8 - Almost everything else in the movie. lol

Anyway, if you ever get the chance to watch it, DO! I'm willing to make anybody a copy! Email me!

Thanks! :D The only things that bothered me were Maddy leaving really fast for Hollywood and acting like she wouldn't miss him which I think made the audience think that Maddy didn't really love Alan to begin with, because if she did she wouldn't have done that. Another thing is that she has sex with Alan at the hotel, then freezes him out for such a long time. I didn't quite get that.

A Sweet Little Movie, Worth a Look

[djeld13 · 21 August 2003]

Why haven't more people seen this movie? It's wonderful. The plot is simple, a couple parting and then getting back together, the uncertainty of their relationship causing trauma. But through the whole film you do not feel that the situation has been over-dramatized; it is what it is, and that's why it's such a rewarding story. Rob Reiner and Penny Marshall made this film before their divorce; you can see the love of that relationship play out on the screen, and in that way, this is a bit of Hollywood history. There are some wonderful cameos, of the more noticeable being Michael McKean in a very early performance outside of "Laverne & Shirley" (he had connections, of course).

This is Rob Reiner and Penny Marshall before parting ways, and this is a truly romantic story that doesn't need to end on a sour note to succeed. If you have an opportunity to see it, don't pass it up.