It may be that in the 1970s, men and women were not quite sure what to do about marriage. The divorce rate was rising and they were perhaps fearful. Many started living together. The humorous I Will . . . I Will . . . For Now (1976) may reflect this uncertainty. In the film, “A divorced couple tries reconciliation through a legal contract instead of remarriage . . .” (imdb.com). They finally find themselves undergoing inane sex therapy, but are bereft of real solutions.

Directed and co-written by “Golden Age” Hollywood veteran, Norman Panama, with the help of old-time TV writer Albert E. Lewin, this flick, as a romantic comedy, is monumentally unmemorable. It might have been funny had it contained some true wit, but I don’t recall any. Elliott Gould and Diane Keaton enact the couple, Gould failing to be a thespian of taste while Keaton is bland. Victoria Principal was given a worthless role but is fine in it—and almost as beautiful as she was in Dallas. Paul Sorvino more or less succeeds but with Panama’s trivial script working against him. I’d like to see some of Panama’s other movies; maybe I Will is simply not Panamanian enough.