Thirtysomething (1987)★ 7.5/10
- Drama
- Romance
Directed by: Scott Winant, Ron Lagomarsino, Peter Horton, Ken Olin, Marshall Herskovitz
Written by: Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Zwick, Joseph Dougherty, Wes Irwin, Richard Kramer
Seven tricenarians living in Philadelphia struggle with everyday adult angst.
- Original title
- Thirtysomething
- Storyline
- Hope and Michael are a married couple in their thirties, living in Philadelphia and struggling with everyday adult angst. Michael runs an ad agency with his friend Elliot, whose marriage to Nancy is beginning to show the cracks of age, as is the friendship between Hope and her best friend Ellyn. Michael's best friend Gary is trying to get over his mutually-destructive affair with Michael's cousin Melissa and get on with his womanizing life. It sounds like just another soap, but is given a unique atmosphere by the production team (the Bedford Falls company, also responsible for "My So-Called Life") whose intelligent scripts, believable characters, and frequent dips into the slightly-surreal world of the characters' minds places the series as one of the highlights of the late 1980s.
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 3,562
- Companies
- The Bedford Falls Company, MGM Television, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Cuatro, Lifetime Television, Lifetime, More4, Shout! Factory, Televisi Republik Indonesia (TVRI), Wizja 1
- Release dates
- US September 29, 1987
- ID April 17, 1988
- FR January 15, 1989
- GB January 18, 1989
- SE January 22, 1989
- DE October 27, 1991
- NL October 10, 1992
- AU August 25, 2009
- CA August 25, 2009
- BR January 18, 2011