<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $7,889,694 </Td> </Tr> <P> Just the Way You Are is a 1984 American comedy - drama film starring Kristy McNichol and Michael Ontkean and directed by Édouard Molinaro . </P> <P> Susan is a professional flautist in Boston who has been handicapped since childhood and is forced to wear a leg brace to get around . She is all set to enter into a lavender marriage with her gay investment banker friend Frank in order to help him hide his sexuality so he can get ahead in business and get a big promotion, but decides not to when she realizes that the marriage won't meet her (or his) sexual needs . Shortly afterwards she accepts the offer to travel to Europe on a concert tour . While in Paris, she comes up with an idea to disguise her leg by putting it in a cast and travel on her own to the French Alps to be treated without pity . Not looking to find romance, Susan however has become the interest of Peter, a news photographer . They soon fall in love and Peter dumps his insufferable and narcissistic girlfriend Bobbie for her . Susan is forced to decide if she should tell Peter the truth about herself . </P> <Ul> <Li> Kristy McNichol...Susan Berlanger </Li> <Li> Michael Ontkean...Peter Nichols </Li> <Li> Kaki Hunter...Lisa Elliott </Li> <Li> André Dussollier...François Rossignol </Li> <Li> Catherine Salviat...Nicole Schallon </Li> <Li> Robert Carradine...Sam Carpenter </Li> <Li> Alexandra Paul...Bobbie </Li> <Li> Lance Guest...Jack the Answering Service Guy </Li> <Li> Tim Daly...Frank Bantam </Li> <Li> Patrick Cassidy...Steve Haslachez </Li> <Li> Gérard Jugnot...Desk Clerk, Hotel Monte Blanc </Li> <Li> André Oumansky...Paris Doctor </Li> <Li> Billy Kearns...Earl Cooper, Frank's Boss </Li> <Li> Joyce Gordon...Answering Service Lady </Li> <Li> Wayne Robson...Theater Assistant Manager </Li> <Li> Jean - Claude Ostrander...French Ski Instructor </Li> <Li> Garrick Dowhen...Bill Holland, American Ski Coach </Li> </Ul>

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