Still image from the 1979 film 10 .

10

Directed by Blake Edwards

In the throes of a midlife crisis, a Hollywood songwriter becomes infatuated with a blonde beauty.

1979 2h 2m Comedy TV-14

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CAST
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Blake Edwards, Director
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Blake Edwards
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Max Showalter,
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Max Showalter

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Dudley Moore,
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Dudley Moore

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Bo Derek,
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Bo Derek

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Julie Andrews,
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Julie Andrews

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Brian Dennehy,
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Brian Dennehy

FULL SYNOPSIS

George is a middle-aged songwriter who feels that his life has become boring. He becomes obsessed with a girl called Jenny, and follows her to Mexico without her knowledge. In Mexico, George saves the life of Jenny's fiancee and is able to finally meet her. However, he realises that he is too shy and set in his ways to have an affair with her, and that Jenny is not exactly who he thought she was.


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I Forgot My Tutu
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She's Always Busy
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ARTICLES
Writer-director Blake Edwards came up with the idea for 10 (1979), one of his greatest comedies, one day in Brussels as he was being driven through the city. At a stop sign, he saw a bride in the next car for a fleeting moment, and he wondered what it would be like to see the girl of one's dreams in such a situation -- as she was on her way to be married. Edwards wrote the script fairly quickly and was excited about it; the Hollywood studios were not. Edwards had not made a successful film without the words "Pink Panther" in the title for many years, and it was not easy to find studio backing. Ultimately, to secure funding he had to agree with the newly formed Orion Pictures, a subsidiary of United Artists, to follow 10 with a caper comedy in the vein of The Pink Panther. The screenplay at this point centered on a 42-year-old dentist named George who spies a knockout woman -- a "10" -- on her way to her wedding, triggering a midlife crisis that drives him to pursue her on her Mexican honeymoon. To play George, Edwards cast the veteran George Segal. To play George's girlfriend Samantha, Edwards cast his own real-life wife, Julie Andrews, in her first screen role in five years. And to play Jenny, the movie's "10," Edwards tested countless pretty young women -- fruitlessly -- until he overheard someone talking about actor John Derek's beautiful wife, 22-year-old Bo Derek. She had only acted in two films. As author Sam Wasson has recounted, "He arranged to meet her, and ...

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