A pioneer wife and mother's failing health earns her a death sentence, so she sets out to find a new wife and mother for her family. None of the prospects meets her husband's requirement of causing 'the tingle', until she brings home a beautiful prostitute. As her time with her family grows shorter, she teaches the new woman the ways of a farmer's wife and mother, watching the affection grow between the new woman and her husband. But the love between the husband and wife remains, and the tears will flow as the changes come about and the wife suffers more than just physical pain. Definitely a 'box of kleenex' video. -- Chantelle Miller

The plot is a typical one where bank robbers plan for the big heist coupled with an incidental love story. However, this love story happens to be quite fun because both men fall in love with one of the girls they kidnapped. She is a desperate woman looking for some type of adventure to get out of the home as a typical housewife. She ends up loving both of the men as each love her but are jealous. So, the love story serves a strong purpose and is possibly the best part of the movie. -- ducksquat

We won't spoil the ending for you.  Suffice to say we consider this a movie about polygamy.

Hollywood finds a surefire recipe for success. Take a legendary TV show and remake it as movie with today's heartthrob (Mel Gibson) as the lead (Maverick). Cast the original actor (James Garner) as a costar (playing a lawman). For love interest, spend more big bucks and get Jodie Foster as a competing gambler and possible lover for Maverick. Film it with sweeping cinematography by an Academy Award winner (Vilmos Zsigmond). Finally, get the Lethal Weapons director (Richard Donner) to direct it. The result has to be a MAVERICK that is a monster hit. -- Steve Rhodes

One of the many subplots is the gradual formation of a threesome between the hero, the lawman, and the lady, who is intimate with both of them.

chronicles the true story of a competent & really quite likable physician, Dr. Norman Grayson, who juggles, yes, three wives. Of course trying to divide his time between the three of them, keep the personal & social whirl sorted out, deal with the financial mix ups, and prevent each from learning about the other two...all prove something of a challenge for the good doctor. -- IMDb's reviewer roghache

If there's ever been a polygamist who needed real polygamy, Norman Grayson is it!  I can't help but sadly wonder what this man's life would have been like if he had been "The Man with Three Sister Wives" instead. Perhaps he would have died happy.

This 1969 film has never lost its popularity or its unusual appeal as a star-driven Western that tinkers with the genre's conventions and comes up with something both terrifically entertaining and--typical of its period--a tad paranoid. Paul Newman plays the legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy as an eternal optimist and self-styled visionary, conjuring dreams of banks just ripe for the picking all over the world. Robert Redford is his more levelheaded partner, the sharpshooting Sundance Kid. The film[...] basically begins as a freewheeling story about robbing trains but soon becomes a chase as a relentless posse--always seen at a great distance like some remote authority--forces Butch and Sundance into the hills and, finally, Bolivia... --Tom Keogh

Disappointingly, the film fails to make clear the historic threesome of Butch, Sundance, and Etta Place. Sundance is shown in bed with Etta, rising the next morning to ride on the handlebars of Butch's bicycle in her pajamas. She kisses Butch soundly -- Sundance shrugs off this romantic display by his two best friends. Nevertheless, the director keeps Butch's sleeping bag a discrete distance from the others. Too hot for 1969 audiences?

You can read more about Butch, Etta, and Sundance in Foster, Foster, and Hadady's Three in Love. There are several other bandit threesomes that we discuss in The Maverick Movie -- Bandit Threesomes.

... funny take on that reliable laugh-getter, bigamy. Well, not bigamy, technically: Dudley Moore is only married to one woman, Micki (Ann Reinking), but she's too busy to have the baby he longs for. He winds up in an affair with Maude (Amy Irving), who gets pregnant, thus satisfying his paternal urge. Except that then Micki announces that she, too, is pregnant, doubling his pleasure--and his problems.

Twin pregnancies lead to a variety of complications, particularly because Maude's father is a professional wrestler. And when both women wind up delivering in the same hospital on the same day, well, director Blake Edwards does what he can to make this sordid situation seem comic--which it is as long as you don't think about it too much. --Marshall Fine

Our hero is in constant hot water as he tries to manage the deception of having two wives who are unknown to each other.  Fortunately, the last scene, like the cover photo, implies that all ends well for this threesome.