The Way We Live Now is a 1970

1970 in film

The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 9 - Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, therefore ending his career....

 film, directed by Barry Brown

Barry Brown (director)

Barry Brown is an American film director. He has directed The Way We Live Now and Cloud Dancer .-External links:...

, who was also its producer, cinematographer and film editor. It was written by Brown and Warren Miller

Warren Miller (author)

Warren Miller was an American writer. Although he gained some notoriety for his books dealing with issues of race, as in The Cool World and The Siege of Harlem, and for his more political books such as Looking for The General and Flush Times, because of his early death due to lung cancer and his...

. The Way We Live Now was the first Linda Blair

Linda Blair

Linda Denise Blair is an American actress. Blair is best known for her role as the possessed child, Regan, in the 1973 film The Exorcist, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, winning one. She reprised her role in 1977's Exorcist II: The Heretic.-Biography:Blair...

 film.

Cast

• Nicholas Pryor
  Nicholas Pryor
  Nicholas Pryor is an American film and television actor.Pryor was born Nicholas David Probst in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Dorothy and J. Stanley Probst, a pharmaceutical manufacturer....
  
   - Lionel Aldridge
• Joanna Miles
  Joanna Miles
  Joanna Miles is an American actress.Miles was born in Nice, France, the daughter of Jeanne Miles, an American painter, and Johannes Schiefer, a French painter art curator. She immigrated to the United States, and was naturalized a citizen, in 1941...
  
   - Amelia
• Lois Smith
  Lois Smith
  Lois Smith is an American actress whose career in theater, film, and television has spanned five decades.Smith was born Lois Arlene Humbert in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Carrie Davis and William Oren Humbert, who was a telephone company employee...
  
   - Jane Aldridge
• Lynda Simon - Rosalind Leopold
• Patricia McAneny - Laurie
• Rebecca Darke - Martha
• Sydney Walker
  Sydney Walker
  -Early life:Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sydney Walker was primarily a stage actor, performing in twenty-eight Broadway plays between 1961 and 1973...
  
   - Lincoln
• Linda Blair
  Linda Blair
  Linda Denise Blair is an American actress. Blair is best known for her role as the possessed child, Regan, in the 1973 film The Exorcist, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, winning one. She reprised her role in 1977's Exorcist II: The Heretic.-Biography:Blair...
  
   - Sara Aldridge
• Samantha Jones
  Samantha Jones (singer)
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   - Samantha
• Eugene Wood - Mr. Aldridge
• Miriam Phillips - Mrs. Aldridge
• Morris Strassberg - Mr. Leopold
• James McMurray - Bit Part

Plot

Lionel Aldridge is an advertising executive in New York City who finds that, despite his success, he is depressed and unfulfilled. His mid-life crisis drives him to leave his wife and family, and he throws himself into a series of love affairs only to find that they leave him no closer to finding meaning in his life.