Charles Baxter

Portland, over an 18-month period. Eight couples, four uncouplings, two weddings, two graves, an angry father, a grieving couple, love, sex, heartache, and a dog. Penniless kids Oscar and Chloe meet at Bradley's coffee shop, fall in love, and share their dreams. Bradley's wife falls for another woman when he's not paying attention. He tries again with his realtor, who's having an affair with a married man. Watching all and providing counsel is Harry, a professor on leave, married to the patient Esther and paralyzed by grief. What is love's nature: blindness in the service of procreation, heartbreak, or everything? Can Chloe, Harry, and Bradley discover the answer? Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

"Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing," directed by Alan J. Pakula and written by Alvin Sargent, is most of the time such a funny and eccentric romantic comedy that you have to excuse the attack of Anglo-Saxon ethic that finally overwhelms it. Despite almost everything written by Colette, despite the experience of even Benjamin Franklin, popular American and English fiction writers persist in spreading the gloomy word that the conjoining of an older woman and a younger man is a near-mortal sin, usually punishable by death. It may not be so in life (Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers made a go of it), but the audiences for which Hollywood thinks it is making its films (if not the film makers themselves) are afraid to believe otherwise. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.