The Facts of Life (1960)

A friend group of upper middle class suburbanite couples are constantly together for events. Kitty has little patience for her best friend's husband Larry, but when a vacation for three couples -- due to illness and unexpected work -- winds up stranding them alone together for a week, their feelings for each other change. Upon their return to real life, there's lots of sneaking around and fear of getting caught, but no actual forward motion in their relationship, so they make plans to get away together to an isolated cabin where the reality of what they're doing catches up with them.

What really works here is the very last scene where Kitty comes home, hoping that her husband hasn't yet read the Dear John letter she's left for him. What doesn't is pretty much the entire relationship between Kitty and Larry and the sad state of each of their marriages and self-centered families. The aimed-for humor in several of the scenes were always tinged with sourness. I was not a fan.

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