Word: goof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kate Gunzinger (Clayburgh), a Chicago math professor, is at a crossroads in her professional and personal life. Does she accept a more prestigious position in New York and leave her amiable goof of a lover (Charles Grodin)? Does she commit herself to a charmingly direct ex-baseball player (Michael Douglas)? Both men try to help her decide, but it's her turn. Does she go left, right or back to Square 1? Curiously, the movie sees Kate not so much at a turning point as jogging on a treadmill where you meet the nicest people. For this reason...
...forward as he lectures on the meaning of Brotherhood in one of the House's cramped four-person bedrooms. "We do things together, so that we can get to know each other, know each other well." he explains. "Like we take canoe trips and go out to restaurants and goof around. You don't know what a blast it is to march into a public place, all 31 of us, and take the place over." Brothers perched on desks and leaning on bunk beds look at their feet and nod in agreement, grinning...