You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.

You’d think Marsha Mason would have known, after living in New York for so long, that carrying half a dozen sacks of groceries down several blocks is just not a good idea.  Also, I get that when you've been a very active person, not dancing or working out for two years will do a number on your body.  But I'd rather not think that 33 is death's door, thanks.  Especially when I'LL be 33 in a little over a month.

I'd actually never seen this movie before angua9 mentioned it in a comment a week or so ago.  I was glad to finally see it, though.  This is one of those love stories where it doesn't matter that you know what's going to happen.  The writing and performances make it interesting enough to make you doubt just a little that things are going to work out.  Which of course makes it all the more satisfying when they do.

Can I just say that Richard Dreyfuss is sexy as all get-out in this movie?  I never thought I'd say that, but there it is.  That scene, when Marsha Mason has the goop on her face and he can't keep his hands off her?  *fans self*  Is that weird?  I don't care.  Perhaps I will care when Dreyfuss makes his next film appearance as Dick 'Root-Of-All-Evil' Cheney in Oliver Stone's new movie, but for now I'll forget about that and lust to my heart's content over his Eliot Garfield.

No really, here’s the real lesson: Have a little faith in people. Sometimes they actually are decent.

Possibly the greatest scene in this film is when Paula swallows her pride and asks to borrow some money from Eliot.  He doesn't have the amount she needs, but he offers her half of what he has in his pocket on one condition - that she be a little nice to him.  She misinterprets this as a pass, and it leads to yet another argument and an incredible speech by Dreyfuss about being a decent person and expecting nothing more than a little decency in return.

New Yorkers get a bad rap.  This is no secret.  For all my talk about keeping the shields up, I wouldn't be moving there if I thought that everyone who lived there was a jerk.  My observation is quite the opposite.  They are very busy people with not a lot of time but quite a lot of pride in their city, and if they can they want to help people who don't know their way around.

Yes, Virginia, New Yorkers are human beings too. ;-)