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Jake's Women is a 1992 play by Neil Simon. The play centers on Jake, a writer suffering from psychosis. Jake talks to many of the women he knows, both in real life and in his imagination, as he works to save his marriage. In 1996, the play was made into a TV movie starring Alan Alda.
- Neil Simon
- 1992
Mar 3, 1996 · Jake's Women: Directed by Glenn Jordan. With Alan Alda, Anne Archer, Lolita Davidovich, Julie Kavner. Jake is a writer. He is married to Maggie, but his marriage is in trouble. He cannot stop thinking about other women in his life, characters he invents conversations with.
- (228)
- Drama, Comedy
- Glenn Jordan
- 1996-03-03
Neil Simon's Jake's Women is about a novelist named Jake, who is struggling to save his marriage. During the course of the play, Jake talks to many women about their own perspective on his relationship, in an attempt to gain insight.
Feb 3, 2000 · With Dick Van Dyke, Victoria Rowell, Charlie Schlatter, Barry Van Dyke. When Jake Caldwell brings in his wife to the hospital, Mark learns it's Gloria, another woman besides the spouse Caroline he already knows and introduced him to 10 years prior, and Jake is in fact a bigamist.
- (73)
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Victor Lobl
- 2000-02-03
Jake's women include a revered first wife who was killed years earlier in an accident, his daughter who is recalled as a child but is now a young woman, his boisterous and bossy sister, an opinionated analyst, his current wife who is leaving Jake for another man, and a prospective third wife.
A writer (Alan Alda) retreats into imaginary conversations with the women in his life after his wife (Anne Archer) asks for a separation.
- Drama
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Jake’s Women by Neil Simon Directed by Edward M. Coffield. This warm and poignant comedy from America’s premier comic playwright makes another hilarious foray into the world of modern relationships. Jake, a novelist who is more successful with fiction than with life, faces a marital crisis by daydreaming about the women in his life.
