(Peter Yates, US 1974, 90 min., 35mm)
Henrietta and Pete Robbins (Barbra Streisand and Michael Sarrazin) are finding it hard to get by just on his cabdriver earnings. When Pete’s brother and sister-in-law come by for dinner, they remind the couple that their early marriage prevented Pete from completing his college degree, Henry decides to help him take advantage of a tip on pork belly futures from Pete’s dispatcher. Borrowing $3,000 dollars from a loan shark, but when she can’t repay the loan in time, her contract is sold to an unassuming madam running housebound call girls through her service. Conflicted by the lengths she has to go to to help out her husband, and complicated by the fact that her husband delivers her client to their building, Henry has to extricate herself from increasingly dangerous (and hilarious) situations.
This series is community sponsored by The Louis S. Wolk JCC of Greater Rochester.
