The Four Seasons is a 1981 American romantic comedy film written and directed by and starring Alan Alda, which co-stars Carol Burnett, Len Cariou, Sandy Dennis, Rita Moreno, Jack Weston, and Bess Armstrong.

Jack is a moralistic lawyer, Kate a Fortune magazine editor, Nick an insurance salesman and estate planner, Anne a housewife and photographer who enjoys taking pictures of vegetables, Danny a cheap dentist who displays symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder and hypochondriasis, and Claudia an insensitive Italian painter.

While out gathering firewood one day, Nick reveals to Jack how unhappy he is being married to Anne and plans to divorce her, wanting a woman who can excite him.

Summer Nick has separated from Anne and is now dating Ginny Newley (Bess Armstrong), a younger, beautiful, yet naive woman.

During their vacation, the sailboat gets stuck in a sandbar, and the Burroughses and the Zimmers are unable to sleep well due to Nick and Ginny having loud sexual intercourse every night.

When the group gets the sailboat unstuck and resume its journey, the Burroughses privately discuss the effects Nick and Ginny's relationship is having on the others.

Anne, who has become depressed over her marriage, tells the other women that she is moving on by trying new (but unusual) things such as taking a vacation in Czechoslovakia and adopting a pet snake.

That night, the Burroughses fight about Nick and Ginny, and Kate confesses that she actually hates planning the group's quarterly vacations.

The film spawned a short-lived CBS series in 1984 produced by Alda and starring Jack Weston and Tony Roberts.

The film was adapted by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield into an upcoming Netflix miniseries of the same name.