Letting Go

7.3

Genre: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Run time: 104 min
Premiere: 1985. May 11.

Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Charlotte Brown
Starring: John Ritter Sharon Gless Joe Cortese Kit McDonough

Letting Go stars John Ritter as a widower and Sharon Gless as a lonely unmarried woman. They meet during a group-therapy session. Romance is inevitable, but the road to true happiness is pockmarked by a series of comic complications. Advertised as a straight romantic drama, Letting Go is actually more akin to the screwball comedies of the 1930s, with a strong satirical bent regarding "behavior modification" theories. The made-for-TV film debuted May 11, 1985.