Murphy’s Romance (1985)

Murphy’s Romance (1985)
James Garner, Sally Field in Murphy’s Romance (1985) Director: Martin Ritt. Murphy: “I’m in love for the last time in my life.” Emma: “I’m in love for the first time in my life.” Screenplay by Harriett Ford Jr. and Irving Ravetch. Based on the 1980 novella by Max Schot.
Music by Carole King, who also stars in the film as Tillie. Also starring Brian Kerwin, Corey Haim, Georgann Johnson, Dennis Burkley, John C. Becher, Michael Crabtree, Billy Ray Sharkey, Dortha Duckworth, Anna Levine, Michael Prokopuk, Bruce French, Charles Lane and Henry Slate

Sally said of her friend and co-star when he died in 2014: “My heart just broke.
There are few people on this planet I have adored as much as Jimmy Garner. I cherish every moment I spent with him and relive them over and over in my head. He was a diamond”.
