Free Love

Free Love

...everybody is talking about it!

NR 1930 · 70 min · ★ 7.5 · Comedy

A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.

Directed by Hobart Henley · Written by Edwin H. Knopf

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