Details

Release year: 1969

Storyline

John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.

Top credits

Directors

Peter Yates

Writers

Cast

Dustin Hoffman — John
Mia Farrow — Mary
Michael Tolan — James
Sunny Griffin — Ruth

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Awards

1 win & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• When Ruth Gordon won her Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar for Rosemary's Baby (1968) in April 1969, she was asked backstage by the reporters if Mia Farrow was upset at being overlooked for a nomination in the same film. "Nahhh," Gordon replied. "Besides she'll win it next year for John and Mary (1969)." But Farrow was snubbed for this film as well, and in fact never received a nomination in her decades-long career.

• An uncredited Jeff Bridges sang his own song "Lost In Space" on the soundtrack of this movie.

• The original novel is set in London and features exclusively British characters. The first several versions of the screenplay by John Mortimer retained these settings and characters, but Peter Yates was unable to set it up as a British film, and so the script was rewritten for New York characters and settings. However, Mortimer was kept on for these rewrites; it was his only screenplay for an American-made film.