Return Engagement

Return Engagement

1978 · 74 min · ★ 7.3 · Drama, TV Movie

A live-theater production in which Elizabeth Taylor stars as Emily Loomis, a professor of ancient history at a small California college, who reluctantly agrees to rent a room in her house to one of the new students, named Stewart Anderson. Both happen to be loners (she with a secret past) and although they initially get on each other's nerves, they eventually realize the rapport to help one another emerge from their emotional shells.

Directed by Joseph Hardy · Written by James Prideaux

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