Sally Field is a recent divorce who moves with her middle school aged son (Corey Haim) to a small Arizona town to board horses; she gradually develops a May/December romance with the town liberal, a widower pharmacist named Murphy played by James Garner. After some months the ex-husband (Brian Kerwin) shows up to provide complications. The ex isn't a bad man per say, he's not abusive or anything he's mostly immature, so this reinforces why Sally might find an older more substantive gentleman so appealing. That and the fact that Murphy is good to her and extremely charming, Garner has a naturally charisma but I don't know if he's every layed on the charm as much as he does here. It's rare to have the thought that a 33 year old woman should definitely marry that 60 year old man, but here you do. Directed by Martin Ritt, who was a kind of poet. Score by Carole King. ***
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