I Will, I Will...For Now

I Will, I Will...For Now (1976)

They set out to try everything in the book...what happens next you won't find in any book...

Les Bingham takes umbrage that his ex-wife Katie has a new love in life. What he doesn't know is that her new paramour is lawyer Lou Springer. When Katie's sister Sally arrives and tells the two about her new, hip '70s marriage contract, Les and Katie decide to try to get together again under a more liberal marriage contract, like Katie's sister. But, unfortunately for the couple, the contract is planted with the seeds of self-destruction.

Date of release
1976-02-18
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 48m
Genres
Romance, Comedy
Director
Norman Panama

Casting

Interesting facts

I Will, I Will... for Now is a 1976 American romantic-comedy film starring Elliott Gould, Diane Keaton and Paul Sorvino. Released in 1976 by Twentieth Century-Fox, it is the last feature film directed by Norman Panama.

Production

The film was based on an original script by Norman Panama and Alfred Lewin. It was made by Brut Productions the short lived film company of Faberge, headed by George Barrie. When Ross Hunter took over as president of the company in December 1973, he listed the film as among his potential projects.

Hunter left the company after only a few months but in December 1974 Barrie said Brut would make the film. "We think it is a very funny, new wrinkle on marriage," said Barrie. He said the film was about a separated couple who reunite at their daughter's wedding. The wedding ceremony involves reading out a clause with options for renewal or dissolution of the marriage. The couple decide to try again using this arrangement.

Barrie wanted Paul Newman and Glenda Jackson to star.

Norman Panama had made Brut's most successful film to date, A Touch of Class. "I'm hoping lightning will strike twice", said Barrie.

By January 1975 Elliott Gould, who had just made Whiffs for Brut, agreed to star.

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