Irreconcilable Differences is a 1984 comedy-drama film starring Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, and Drew Barrymore. The film was a minor box office success, making over $12 million. For their performances, both Shelley Long and Drew Barrymore were nominated for Golden Globe Awards. The film begins with media attention surrounding Casey Brodsky's decision to divorce her parents and have her nanny, Maria Hernandez, become Casey's legal guardian, which results in her parents, Albert and Lucy Brodsky, being brought out of their self-absorbed lives and made to testify in court about their personal... lives. Much of the film is presented as flashbacks. At a truck stop in Indiana on the night of January 20th, 1973, film professor Albert Brodsky is hitchhiking across the country, where he gets picked up by Lucy van Patten, a woman who has ambitions of writing books, particularly for children, but is repressed by her fiancé "Bink", a gruff Navy man, and is depressed about being relegated to the life of a military wife. Through getting to know Albert, Lucy loosens her inhibitions, breaks off her engagement to Bink, and marries Albert shortly afterwards.
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| Release date: | September 28, 1984 |
| Directed by: | Charles Shyer |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 114 Minutes |
| Producer: | Richard Hashimoto, Nancy Meyers, Arlene Sellers, Alex Winitsky |
| Editor: | John F. Burnett |
| Cinematography: | William A. Fraker |
| Screenplay by: | William A. Fraker, Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer |
| Estimated budget: | $5,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |