Married to It

Married to It
Theatrical release poster
Directed byArthur Hiller
Written byJanet Kovalcik
Produced byThomas Baer
Starring
CinematographyVictor J. Kemper
Edited byRobert C. Jones
Music byHenry Mancini
Distributed byOrion Pictures
Release dates
  • September 11, 1991 (1991-09-11) (Canada)
  • March 26, 1993 (1993-03-26) (U.S.)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$14 million[1]
Box office$2,059,832[2]

Married to It is a 1991 American comedy-drama film directed by Arthur Hiller starring Beau Bridges, Stockard Channing, Robert Sean Leonard, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cybill Shepherd and Ron Silver. The film is about three New York City couples with disparate careers, ages, and lifestyles who bond through their mutual connection to a local private school. As they help to stage a school pageant with a 1960s theme, each couple begins to quarrel and reassess their marriage.

Plot

Three couples meet by chance at a private school fundraiser and come together to organize a school pageant while becoming friends. Claire and Leo LaRonde are two fast-talking yuppies. Leo runs a doll-making company. Claire is a savvy businesswoman but not a very good maternal figure to Lucy, Leo's daughter from a past marriage. Lucy and Claire have a strained relationship. John and Iris Morden are a pair of worn-out hippies with two preteen sons, John works in welfare while Iris is a housewife who takes up some artsy jobs, especially with the school here and there. Nina and Charles (Chuck) Bishop are an earnest and hopeful young couple from Iowa, who are worried about making their young marriage last. Chuck is an ambitious stockbroker and Nina is a school psychologist at the school where Iris and Leo's kids attend. Although they face a slightly awkward start, together these three couples face various challenges and learn about their marital problems as well as each other.

Cast

Reception

Film site Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 30% based on 10 critic reviews.[3]

Film critic Roger Ebert wrote that "We can more or less predict what will happen to [the] characters the moment we see how the roles were cast," that "a subplot involving Leonard’s troubles at work is so artificial and contrived the actors seem to be reading their lines over each other’s shoulders," and that "[a]t one point [the film] seemed destined to go directly to TV and the video stores. That would have been appropriate."[4] Writing in The Washington Post, critic Rita Kempley described the film as "principally a TV sitcom with elephantiasis," that the "sodden aphorisms of Janet Kovalcik's script pile up like used towels in a gym hamper," and that the film "is more than a bummer, it's mental cruelty."[5]

References

  1. ^ "1993-94 Film Release (C)1993 Eric G. Carter All Rights Reserved". Retrieved July 22, 2025.
  2. ^ Married to It at Box Office Mojo
  3. ^ "Married to It". Rotten Tomatoes. March 26, 1993. Retrieved January 11, 2023.
  4. ^ Ebert, Roger (March 26, 1993). "Married To It Movie Review & Film Summary (1993)". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved February 25, 2026.
  5. ^ Kepley, Rita (March 26, 1993). "Married To It". washingtonpost.com. The Washington Post Company. Retrieved February 25, 2026.
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