Loving Couples is a 1980 American romantic comedy film written by Martin Donovan and directed by Jack Smight.
Evelyn's workaholic husband learns about it from Greg's live-in girlfriend, scatterbrained television weather girl Stephanie, and the two begin to engage in a dalliance of their own.
Together with A Change of Seasons, the film was one of two 1980s 20th Century Fox's releases starring Shirley MacLaine that dealt with the subject of marital infidelity.
[4] A soundtrack to the movie was released on Motown Records featuring new music from The Temptations, Syreeta, and Billy Preston.
"[6] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it "a dumb remake of a very old idea that has been done so much better so many times before, that this version is wretchedly unnecessary .
"[8] Time Out New York says it "subscribes to conventions as old as the hills and twice as rocky, burying any hints of feminist awareness beneath the routines of macho courtship.
Faced with direction paced at a lethargic crawl and dialogue of inconceivable banality, the cast respond with performances of glazed charm.