Main Cast: Harley Jane Kozak, Elizabeth McGovern, Bill Pullman, Brad Pitt, Ken Wahl
Release Year: 1994
Country: US
Run Time: 97 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
They say you can't miss what you never had, but one woman wants to put that idea to the test in this comedy. Kathy Whiting (Harley Jane Kozak) is a housewife and mother of two who enjoys a happy but unexciting relationship with her husband Peter (Bill Pullman), while her best friend Emily Embrey (Elizabeth McGovern) runs an art gallery and is living with a good-looking artist, Elliot Fowler (Brad Pitt). Both women feel that a sense of romantic adventure is missing from their lives, and Kathy has never been able to forget Tom Andrews (Ken Wahl), a football player that she was in love with in high school but never slept with (she was saving herself for marriage at the time). So when Kathy learns that Tom is living in Denver, and Emily will be going there on business soon, she asks Emily for a very big favor: find Tom, seduce him, and then give her a full report on what she's been wondering about these 15 years since graduation. The Favor was filmed in 1991 but went unreleased until 1994, after A River Runs Through It and Legends of the Fall had made fourth-billed Brad Pitt a box-office draw. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Larry Miller - Joe Dubin; Holland Taylor - Maggie Sand; Arthur Burghardt - Hotel Clerk; John Horn - Pastor; O-Lan Jones - Mrs. Moyer; Stephen Kahan - Helpful Fisherman; Jordan Christopher Michael - Alex; Milt Oberman - Mr. Moyer; Claire Stansfield - Miranda; Mindy Sterling - Debbie Rollins; Kim Walker - Jill Topial; Deborah White - Professor Allen; Sharon Collar - Clerk at Drugstore; Lisa Robins - Stewardess; Florence Schauffler - Museum Docent; Mary Marsh - Ladies at Church; Michelle Robinson - Birthday Party Guest; Paul Beeson - Young Tom Andrews
Credit
Mark Haack - Art Director, Bonnie Timmermann - Casting, Josann McGibbon - Co-producer, Sara Parriott - Co-producer, Charles Skouras III - Co-producer, Carol Oditz - Costume Designer, Marty Elcan - First Assistant Director, Donald Petrie - Director, Harry Keramidas - Editor, Thomas Newman - Composer (Music Score), Stephan Vonhase - Musical Direction/Supervision, David Chapman - Production Designer, Tim Suhrstedt - Cinematographer, Lauren Shuler-Donner - Producer, Rick Finkelstein - Producer, Barry Spikings - Producer, Donna Dubrow - Producer, Josann McGibbon - Screenwriter, Sara Parriott - Screenwriter
