Greatest age difference in a romantic pairing in a movie?

Sabrina?

Harold & Maude

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The pedophile dude in Happiness.

Only 29 year difference in Sabrina.

anything with jack nicholson

actually, woody allen and elizabeth shue, bill murray and scarlett johansson are probably close?

oh, that old bird and leo in titanic.

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paul newman - b. 1925
lolita davidovich - b. 1961

36 year diff

great, great movie btw

Entrapment: Connery - Zeta Jones = 39 years.

i was trying to think of the name of that movie last week! i was like "sliver, uh, snare, uh, lethal slice..." finally i was like "the one where catherine zeta-jones has to slide her butt under a laserbeam" and the person i was with was like "ohhhhh yeah"

Harrison Ford's gotta be a contender...

Laurence Olivier (b. 1907) & Katharine Ross (b. 1940 or '42) in The Betsy not big nuff, apparently.

bill murray and scarlett johansson have a chaste romance.

I looked up the Lolita films but the Connery/Jones gap is bigger.

James Mason - Sue Lyon = 35 years
Jeremy Irons - Dominique Swain = 32 years

lolita and harold maude are special cases, no? they're about big age-gap romances. the others are just acme hollywood misogyny.

Yes, that's what I was getting at - even when the film is about a huge age gap it's still smaller than that between Jones and Shir Shon.

oic lol

I thought "To Catch a Thief" would count, but the difference is only 25 years.

that's quite a lot!

schneider-brando in 'last tango' is 28 years, but there is supposed to be *some* age diff, if maybe not that much?

It's weird (to me anyway) that there are only 9 years between Anne Bancroft (1931), Dustin Hoffman (1937) and Katherine Ross (1940).

shurely shir shon hash shome shot ushing a bond movie?

(talking about The Graduate, obv.)

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naw it's just plain weird is what it is, the graduate.

Highlander.

ha

I wanna see "Harold and Maude" again

Big, but not as big as some of the others on this thread: Atlantic City w/Burt Lancaster (1913) and Susan Sarandon (1946)= 33 years

Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn in Love in the Afternoon

River Phoenix and Sidney Poitier in Little Nikita.

Cooper/Hepburn=28 years

Funny Face with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. Ugh, it turned my stomach watching a unwrapped-mummy-looking Fred coming on to Audrey.

He's no worse than the undead Cooper.

Yeah, let's rule out all movies where the age gap is the whole point of the movie. Only romantic pairings that are supposed to be believable on their own terms. So far Connery/Zeta Jones seems to be winning with 39 year difference

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Fred looked 50 when he was 30

The Little Prince = 44 years age difference

schneider-brando in 'last tango' is 28 years, but there is supposed to be *some* age diff, if maybe not that much?

Something like that. Schneider was a last-minute replacement for Dominque Sanda (only 24 years younger than Brando), who was unable to do the film because of a pregnancy. Supposedly Warren Beatty had been Bertolucci's first pick for the male lead.

good call on funny face

astaire - b. 1899 (!)
hepburn - b. 1929

30 year diff

i think that one wins, whatever the numbers say

stiflers mom & the old dude in best in show

Big Sean is the king of this

Bill Murray & Scarlet Johansson may get the bronze for Lost In Translation = 34 years

Ugh, it turned my stomach watching a unwrapped-mummy-looking Fred coming on to Audrey.

PLEASE REWORD THIS

Funny Face just appeared in my mail the other day, but I sent it back, since I wasn't in the mood.

Being There-Shirley Maclaine ('34) & Melvyn Douglas ('01)=33 years

love in the afternoon is such a gross movie i hate it

Warren Beatty isn't about to break the record but he definitely has a tendency towards this, breaking the twenty-year mark at least in Dick Tracy (Madonna, 21 years his junior) and Bulworth (Halle Berry, 29 years).

(Note that Beatty was the director of both films, GREATLY increasing the creep factor.)

i'm definitely gonna go with woody allen - elizabeth shue as the biggest gap where he tries desperately to tongue her.

nick nolte and julia roberts close second.

um, casablanca should be a respectable age gap here, too?

Paul Newman and Melanie Griffith in Nobody's Fool.

jesus bergman-bogey only 16 years difference? disappointing.

allen -shue 28 years attaboy you creepy f*ck

nolte - roberts 26 years yum

Roger Moore is a good one - Carole Bouquet is 30 years his junior in "For Your Eyes Only" but there are several starlets around that age difference in the Bond films.

what's 'too big' an age gap in real life then? 15 years? 20?

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saw this thread title and was going to mention "Funny Face"- it just seems like a real stretch- they are not plausible together

In the Young Girls of Rochefort, Françoise Dorléac (b. 1942) has a romance with Gene Kelly (b 1912). They try to make Kelly look younger than he is, but the result is more creepy than convincing.

what's 'too big' an age gap in real life then? 15 years? 20?

The acceptable gap is half of the elder partner's age, plus 7 years. Assuming that the elder partner is 18 or older. It shakes out in pairs like this:

18 / 16
30 / 22
40 / 27
50 / 32
60 / 37
70 / 42
100 / 57
200 / 107

That last one, a 93-year age difference, seems huge. But I personally wouldn't have a problem with a 200 year-old guy with a 107 year-old woman. Good luck to them both!

Lol "acceptable age difference". I've always hated that chart. Mostly since probably over half of the people I've been with have been "unacceptable" and come on, that's ridiculous.

Right, I win without checking the rest of this thread....

Sextette: (1978)
Mae West (75)
Timothy Dalton (32)

So that's 43 years. I win.

I think films where the age difference is integral to the plot were discounted upthread, and though I've not seen Sextette a cursory glance at the imdb page seems to suggest it loses out on that front.

Which is a shame, as I was going to ask what the largest one is for older female/younger male, as it is almost invariably the other way around. So far I don't think we've had many/any without the difference being explicit in the film.

There's no mention of the age difference in the film (I've seen it).

Keith Moon is the most convincing actor in it, which tells you how bad it truly is.

Ah, okay, cool. We do indeed have a winner.

how in heck can 60 and 37 be okay when say 40 and 25 is frowned upon. what arrant nonsense. like you can plot love with a graph.

The acceptable gap is half of the elder partner's age, plus 7 years.

I had no idea this was a real thing. I thought they made it up on Parks & Recreation.

It's not a real thing, although it vastly predates the existence of Parks & Recreation. It's a long-standing piece of bullshit that's passed around because people like talking about stupid bullshitty things like this.

That's kind of what I meant by a real thing. I never heard it before the other night.

Basically, it means that when I first met my wife, she was exactly the right age for me.

Now, she's too old.

File under 'self-serving-bullshit'

is there a different chart for "acceptable age difference for a hookup" vs. "romantic partnership"?

or is it just the legal one- i.e. as long as people are 18 or over, play ball

like Emily said: are there any other movies with older women and younger males?

Now, she's too old.

File under 'self-serving-bullshit'

While I agree that the whole thing is bullshit, iirc this is only meant as a "guideline" for being "too young". Its okay if you are over that age, the whole point is that it is supposedly "creepy" if you are involved with someone under that age.

Anne Bancroft was only six years older than Dustin Hoffman. Well done, Hollywood, nice one.

Tim, with Piper Laurie (b. 1932) and Mel Gibson (b. 1956)?

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maybe out of bounds cos that movie is about the difference in age i guess.

the number of older man/younger woman pairings is obviously farcical and often skeezy, but i guess irl that dynamic is more common than the other way round