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Once Is Not Enough

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Has-been producer Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas) marries rich closeted lesbian Deirdre Granger (Alexis Smith) in an attempt to regain his financial footing. When his daughter, January (Deborah Raffin), returns home after recuperating from a motorcycle accident, she resents the new woman in her father's life, doubting that there is any real love in the marriage. She then takes up with Tom Colt (David Janssen), a famous but alcoholic writer who is close in age to her father.

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Ruth Batchelor Los Angeles Free Press 11/27/2019
A fitting epitaph to the saga of Jacqueline Susann. Movie buffs will love it, and Susann fans will finally get their money's worth. Go to Full Review
Phil Hall Film Snobbery 02/11/2011
1.5/5
Once is more than enough! Go to Full Review
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Christopher C. @PapaTangooo May 24 There is some fun banter from Kirk Douglas but it is just an overall boring movie. See more thiago S @Thiagostone Apr 13 Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom See more Ed . @RT01276001 Aug 29 Twice the screen time of Brenda Vaccaro would still not have been enough. Scenes with Alexis Smith and Melina Mercouri, and with Vaccaro, are the only ones that give any life to this film. Jacqueline Susann was the Queen of ostensibly racy novels that were written in an old fashioned, even prim, style. Once contains none of the camp found in Valley of the Dolls or The Love Machine, to its detriment. See more 10/02/2021 A young woman , January returns to her father, a film producer who recently (re)married to a rich mature woman. She unwillingly sleeps with the stock broker cousin of her step mother, she falls in love with a prize winning alcoholic novelist of her father's age. The movie depicts the class fellow of January, Linda Riggs who gets pretty after cosmetic surgery, she serves to impart the required sense of humour, she admits :-"I screwed every man in this organization" When the novelist friend meets January's father, Linda immediately plans to seduce the famous man, January asks her with black humour:-"Is there any man U don't want to get bed with?" As the story unfolds, January loses her father, becomes a millionaire, loses her lover too. The movie shall be liked by every one who has read romantic novels during teen years. See more steve d @RT35616104 07/16/2020 The film lied. Once was more than enough. See more 07/22/2014 It fixes the book's assumed-into-heaven/abducted-by-aliens/general WTF ending, but leaves out a lot of the same's salacious goodness. Subplots are introduced and then just left dangling in the wind. It's not camp like the Valley of the Dolls or The Love Machine adaptations and so it's just middling. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Has-been producer Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas) marries rich closeted lesbian Deirdre Granger (Alexis Smith) in an attempt to regain his financial footing. When his daughter, January (Deborah Raffin), returns home after recuperating from a motorcycle accident, she resents the new woman in her father's life, doubting that there is any real love in the marriage. She then takes up with Tom Colt (David Janssen), a famous but alcoholic writer who is close in age to her father.
Director
Guy Green
Producer
Jim Di Gangi, Howard W. Koch
Screenwriter
Julius J. Epstein, Jacqueline Susann
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Paramount Pictures, Aries Productions
Rating
R
Genre
Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 20, 1975, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 1, 2017
Runtime
2h 1m