Screenwriter and director Paul Mazursky was one of several filmmakers in the 1960s and 1970s who turned his attention to the increasing social tensions caused by gender role liberalization and a more open attitude towards love and marriage. His exploration of tolerant relationships began with his famous collaborations with Bob and Carol, Ted and Alice in 1969, and extended to his most successful film "Unmarried Woman" in 1978, which centers around a recently divorced woman. In 1973, between the two, he concocted this bittersweet comedy, with George Segal playing a man who falls in love with him after his ex-wife divorces him due to infidelity. Mazursky's story cunningly explores the complexity of contemporary marriage and is a typical example of relationship centered films in the 1970s.