Pete 'n' Tillie

Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)

"Honeymoon's over... it's time to get married."

A fun-loving bachelor woos and weds a secretary, but the bonds of this marriage aren't strong enough to stop his philandering from continuing.

Date of release
1972-12-17
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Drama, Comedy, Romance
Director
Martin Ritt

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 2

Pete 'n' Tillie is a 1972 American comedy-drama film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett. Its advertising tagline was: "Honeymoon's over. It's time to get married."

Production

Writer Julius Epstein said that the film is a combination of a novella by Peter De Vries and "a flop play of mine called But, Seriously. I took material from the flop play and melded it into the novella because the novella, from the story point of view, was not enough. What I took from my original play made a picture out of it." Epstein said that But, Seriously "had a political angle that was dull as hell—that's what killed the play.

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