Micki & Maude

Micki & Maude is a 1984 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and starring Dudley Moore.

It co-stars Tony Award-winning actress and dancer Ann Reinking as Micki and Amy Irving as Maude.

In India, this film was remade in Tamil as Rettai Vaal Kuruvi starring Mohan, Archana, and Rathika Sarathkumar, and directed by Balu Mahindra.

When she becomes pregnant, the two decide to get married, with Maude and her father, professional wrestler Barkhas Guillory (Hard Boiled Haggerty), planning the wedding.

With his television boss and best friend Leo (Richard Mulligan) covering for him, he sees one wife during the daytime and the other at night, using work as an excuse.

The film ends with the women pursuing their careers: Micki as a judge presiding in a courtroom, Maude playing cello in a symphony orchestra.

The director, said Reynolds, made it "much sweeter", slowed the pace and introduced the idea of one wife having a wrestler father.

[2] Hard Boiled Haggerty, a professional wrestler, was subsequently cast as Micki's father, Barkhas Guillory, a father-in-law.

Along with Haggerty, the film features cameos from professional wrestlers Gene LeBell, Chief Jay Strongbow, Big John Studd, and André the Giant.

[7][8] "The last twenty minutes of “Micki + Maude,” as the two pregnant women move inexorably forward on their collision course, represents a kind of filmmaking that is as hard to do as anything you’ll ever see on a screen.

Edwards and Moore are working at the top of their forms here, and the result is a pure, classic slapstick that makes “Micki + Maude” a real treasure.