In this sex romp Elliot Gould presages Woody Allen's archetypal male crises that became cinematically en vogue by the end of the decade. Gould plays Dr. Richard Burrows, a successful surgeon who goes through a series of affairs as he fails to maintain his relationship with his dowdy wife (Brenda Vaccaro). Co-starring Dabney Coleman and the alluring Angela Tompkins, I Love My...Wife was heralded by Newsweek as an "Affecting and consistently funny chronicle of connubial collapse... marriage a la mode."