Just Between Friends

Two women strike up a warm friendship, unaware that one’s husband is the other’s lover. One, Holly Davis, is devoted to her family, the other, Sandy Dunlay, to her career. But when a chance meeting sparks off their close friendship, complications begin to unavoidably bubble to the surface., While a timid homemaker has sacrificed her independence for a domestic life, her husband takes up with a TV newscaster. The two women become friends in an aerobics class. They have a lot in common – including being in love with the same man., Mary Tyler Moore is a housewife and Christine Lahti a newscaster who unknowingly shares Moore’s husband (Ted Danson). Sam Waterston. Helga: Salome Jens. Kim: Susan Rinell. Jeff: Timothy Gibbs. Ruth: Jane Greer. George: Mark Blum., A timid aerobics instructor learns that her new best friend is also her husband’s mistress in this domestic drama starring Mary Tyler Moore. Suffering from a bit of empty-nest syndrome as her children pass through adolescence, indecisive homemaker Holly Davis (Moore) reluctantly accepts a part-time gig teaching exercise classes for frazzled gym owner Helga (Salome Jens). There, she meets struggling, independent-minded broadcast journalist Sandy Dunlap (Christine Lahti), and they quickly become thick as thieves. As it turns out, though, Sandy is actually an adulteress — she’s engaged in a clandestine affair with Chip (Ted Danson), Holly’s seismologist husband. Chip loves both women and wants to continue seeing Sandy, but she breaks things off with him now that she knows his wife. When Chip dies suddenly, Sandy helps Holly cope and finances phase two of her life as the new owner of Helga’s aerobics center. Unfortunately, though, evidence of Chip’s infidelity lies around just waiting to be discovered. In the end, it’s up to Chip’s friend Harry Crandall (Sam Waterston) — who’s been nursing a crush on Holly for years — to help a pregnant Sandy and a heartbroken Holly come to terms with their complicated friendship. Just Between Friends marked the directorial debut of screenwriter Allan Burns.