# Losing Ground (1982)

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**Runtime**: 86 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Drama
**Directed by**: Kathleen Collins
**Written by**: Kathleen Collins
**Starring**: Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones, Maritza Rivera, Billie Allen, Gary Bolling

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A philosophy professor and her painter husband rent a country house for the summer, where conjugal cracks widen at unequal speeds. She chases intellectual epiphanies while he chases the sun; both find what they’re not looking for. Collins sidesteps cliché by refusing a neat lesson on art versus life.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, tender

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