At the end of his fruitful collaboration with Harold Pinter, Losey turned to British playwright Tom Stoppard for a notably different take on the taut dramas of entrapped bourgeois life so successfully explored in the Pinter- Losey films. The result is one of Losey's most endearing and genuinely funny films – a sophisticated comedy about writer's block and the perils of an overripe imagination. Featuring the wonderful pairing of Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson as a couple struck by mid-life crises, The Romantic Englishwoman follows the entrance of a mysterious stranger – a handsome young man who is either a poet or a gigolo, or both – who seems to answer both characters' desire for change.