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1981 · 92 mins · English
Directed by
Donald Shebib
Starring
Annie Potts, Robert Carradine, Margot Kidder, Winston Rekert, Jefferson Mappin, Arnie Achtman

She drinks, she swears, she sleeps around, she doesn’t—meet both. A young wife discovers she is pregnant by a man who isn’t her husband. Fearful of the truth, she leaves home and encounters an outgoing, free‑spirited woman on a bus. Though opposite, she moves in with her new friend and realizes they share more in common than expected.

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