Continental Divide

Name: Continental Divide
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: September 18, 1981
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Allen Garfield, Bill Henderson, Blair Brown, Bruce Jarchow, Carlin Glynn

1981

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: September 18, 1981 | PG

Starring: Allen Garfield, Bill Henderson, Blair Brown, Bruce Jarchow, Carlin Glynn, Everett Smith, John Belushi, Liam Russell, Tony Ganios, Val Avery

Summary: A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

Director: Michael Apted

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG

Runtime: 103 min

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Roger Ebert

The movie itself is fun: goofy, softhearted, fussy, sometimes funny, and with the sort of happy ending that columnists like to find for their stories and hardly ever find themselves. Read full review

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For a picture that you can't really believe for a second, Continental Divide still comes off as a reasonably engaging entertainment thanks to some lively performances and a liberal dose of laughs throughout the script. Read full review

Rita Kempley

A refreshing fall film. [18 Sep 1981, p.19]

Janet Maslin

Mr. Apted has made this a sweet, engaging movie that audiences will very much want to see end well. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

Continental Divide should have marked Belushi's tentative, encouraging first step towards quirkier, more substantive roles and films. Instead it, and Neighbors were more of a dead end. Read full review

Pauline Kael

Kasdan has eliminated all the conflicting interests and the psychological impediments to a happy marriage, leaving the physical separation as the only obstacle. There's nothing left for the movie to be about except how the hero and the heroine can conquer space. (And at the end, the pictured fudges even this.)

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

This unlikely love story never really pays off, largely due to Lawrence Kasdan's contrived script. To their credit, a very subdued Belushi and an appealing Brown do their best to add a patina of light charm to this minor effort, and largely they succeed. Read full review

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