The Four Seasons: Alan Alda’s Fall Soccer Sweatshirt and Wranglers

Alan Alda in The Four Seasons (1981) Vitals Alan Alda as Jack Burroughs, married lawyer Connecticut, Fall 1980 Film: The Four Seasons Release Date: May 22, 1981 Director: Alan Alda Costume Designer: Jane Greenwood WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background The start of each new season this year tends to send me back to The Four Seasons for content. Written and directed by Alan Alda, this 1981 comedy follows three couples on their seasonal group trips as they navigate their own complicated relationships. Alda stars as Jack Burroughs, stably centered in a marriage with Kate (Carol Burnett), who typically plans each vacation. The fall trip follows the Burroughses and their four friends up to Connecticut for Parents’ Weekend with two of their daughters who are enrolled in the same college, resulting in a hyper-competitive soccer game which reveals a deeper conflict within the group, from Jack’s anger at the womanizing Nick (Len Cariou) to Kate’s resentment at having to plan each trip. What’d He…