It's My Turn

Claudia Weill's second feature is a romantic look at the humorous and tragic sides of love, starring Jill Clayburgh as Kate Gunzinger, a mathematics professor who lives with perpetually sunny architect Homer (Charles Grodin) in Chicago. But during a trip to New York City, Kate becomes romantically ...more

The law of diminishing returns had set in by the time Jill Clayburgh starred in It's My Turn, a film that seems to be a descendant of her earlier (and much better) An Unmarried Woman and Starting Over. None of these films were actually sequels, but Clayburgh's presence -- and the fact that her character in each one seemed to be a stand-in for the "modern woman" of the time -- makes them feel like part of a trilogy. The difference is that the two earlier films were subtler in their approach; ...more