The Facts of Life is a 1960 romantic comedy starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball as married people who (almost) have an affair.

The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one for Best Costume Design (for Edith Head and Edward Stevenson).

A heavy rainstorm causes problems with Larry and Kitty's hired car, and also with their cabin in the mountains which has a leaky roof.

These cause tensions between them and bring a gradual realization that leaving their families involves many complications, including deciding that what they are doing is "wrong".

In a positive contemporary review in The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther called the script "... a wonderfully good-humored estimation of an essentially pathetic state of affairs" and wrote: "It is a grandly good-natured picture, full of thoroughly sparkling repartee and word-gags and sight-gags that crackle with humor and sly intelligence.