CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Micki & Maude (1984)

EDITOR’S NOTE: Micki & Maude was on the CBS Late Movie on February 17, 1989.

Rob Salinger (Dudley Moore) is happily married to lawyer Micki (Ann Reinking, who is mostly known for her dancing career). He wants a child but she wants a career. While interviewing cellist Maude Guillory (Amy Irving), he falls in love and gets her pregnant. Her father, pro wrestler Barkhas Guillory (Hard Boiled Haggerty), is beyond happy and starts to plan their wedding.

Our protagonist plans to tell Micki that he wants a divorce, except that she’s pregnant and kept the child for him. With help from his boss Leo (Richard Mulligan), Rob has a wife at day and at night. They may never have found out the truth if they didn’t both go into labor on the same day, in the same floor of the same hospital.

Yet somehow, these women become friends and kick Rob out of their beds. They both go on to great careers, but by the end of the film, it’s revealed that Rob has had several children with both of them.

Directed by Blake Edwards and written by Jonathan Reynolds, this film had Moore win a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical. And for those who love pro wrestling, this has appearances by Gene LeBell, Chief Jay Strongbow, Jack “Wildman” Armstrong, Big John Studd and Andre the Giant.

If you enjoy Edwards’ sexual screwball films — this is very close to The Man Who Loved Women and Skin Deep — you’ll enjoy it. And while Wallace Shawn is in the cast, he and Andre didn’t do any scenes together. You’ll have to watch The Princess Bride for that.