Breaking Up

TV Movie
1978
1h 40m

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A wealthy suburbanite's life changes drastically when her husband walks out on her and her children.A wealthy suburbanite's life changes drastically when her husband walks out on her and her children.A wealthy suburbanite's life changes drastically when her husband walks out on her and her children.

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6.5/10

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Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
- 3 nominations total

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A dialogue sequence from this film is heard playing in the background of a threatening phone call made to one of the East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker/Golden State Killer's victims in Sacramento, California, on the night of 2 January 1978.

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JoAnn Hammil: What, are you quoting a book?
Amy Hammil: I see things.
JoAnn Hammil: Well, I'd like to know what.
Amy Hammil: Things I see.
JoAnn Hammil: What? You see him say "Stay at home" and I stay at home. You see him say "Let's move out of the city" and we'd move out of the city.
T.C. Hammil: Mom? I think I'm sick.
JoAnn Hammil: Oh, sit down before you fall down. Oh boy.
Amy Hammil: Looks like, uh, 102.8. Just before 103.
JoAnn Hammil: Oh, call the doctor. Tell him he's got pain in the lower left abdomen. And given the fever and the nausea.
Amy Hammil: Should I call dad?
JoAnn Hammil: No, uh, yeah. You want to throw up? It might make you feel better.
T.C. Hammil: No.
JoAnn Hammil: Call the doctor first!

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Featured in The 30th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1978)

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8/10

It maybe painful to watch

That's the perfect topic for a TV movie destined mainly for housewives in the afternoon. It is a story which many folks can indentify themselves in, this kind of stories happen everyday in every town and country. This is a so close real life tale. I have seen this a thousand times before but I am not tired of it. I would love to see a story about the opposite scheme, a woman deciding to quit her husband and kids. But I guess this very scheme has also already been told about. Lee remick is outstanding in this film. As usual.