They All Laughed
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Promotional poster for They All Laughed
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| Directed by | Peter Bogdanovich |
| Produced by | George Morfogen Blaine Novak |
| Written by |
Peter Bogdanovich Blaine Novak |
| Starring |
Audrey Hepburn Ben Gazzara John Ritter Colleen Camp Patti Hansen Dorothy Stratten Blaine Novak |
| Cinematography | Robby Müller |
| Edited by |
William C. Carruth Scott Vickrey |
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Moon Pictures
Time-Life Films |
| Distributed by | Moon Pictures PSO |
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Running time
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115 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $8.6 million |
They All Laughed is a 1981 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, John Ritter, Colleen Camp, Patti Hansen, and Dorothy Stratten. The movie was based on a screenplay by Bogdanovich and Blaine Novak. It takes its name from the George and Ira Gershwin song "They All Laughed".
A romantic comedy, They All Laughed is set in New York City, largely filmed outdoors on the streets, and tells the story of three private detectives investigating two beautiful women for infidelity. The detectives eventually wind up romantically pursuing the women, who turn the tables on them. They All Laughed is an updating of La Ronde, both in tone and theme. The film is also a candid look at love and sex in New York City in the early 1980s.
Detective John Russo (Ben Gazzara) attempts to cheat on his girlfriend, country singer Christy Miller (Colleen Camp), with a blonde taxi driver he calls Sam (Patti Hansen), with the connivance of his colleague Arthur Brodsky (Blaine Novak). Russo has met the taxi driver en route from a meeting at which he was assigned to follow Angela Niotes (Audrey Hepburn), wife of a European tycoon.
Detective Charles Rutledge (John Ritter) falls in love with Dolores Martin (Dorothy Stratten), whose husband has also hired him to spy on her. Charles is cautioned against this infatuation by his buddy Arthur. Feeling slighted by Russo's infidelity, Christy throws herself at Charles, but she ultimately falls in love with Dolores's extramarital paramour Jose (played by Sean Ferrer, who is Audrey Hepburn's son in real life).
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