Mary and Rhoda (2000)

Mary and Rhoda is a 2000 made-for-television film reuniting Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper as Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern from the 1970–77 sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Although the film is a spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, James L. Brooks and Allan Burns were uncredited for creating the characters; neither they nor any other writers or producers from the original series were involved with this reunion film.

It was the only film of any kind to be based on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the first production to be set in the show's "universe" in 18 years since the series finale of Lou Grant in 1982. Mary and Rhoda was written by Katie Ford, executive produced by Mary Tyler Moore and Susan B. Landau, and directed by Barnet Kellman.

During the opening title sequence, the original 1970 version of the "Love Is All Around" theme song is played and then switches to the 1996 version recorded by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.

Synopsis

Mary Richards-Cronin returns to New York City after spending four months in Europe following the death of her Congressman husband Steven Cronin in a rock climbing accident. Rhoda Morgenstern-Rousseau also returns to her native New York to make a fresh start as a photographer after living in Paris where she has just recently left and divorced her second husband, Jean-Pierre Rousseau.

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