Return Engagement (1978)

A live-theater production which Dame Elizabeth Taylor stars as Dr. Emily Loomis, a professor of ancient history at a small California college, who reluctantly agrees to rent a room in her house to one of the new students named Stewart Anderson (Joseph Bottoms). Both happen to be loners (she with a secret past) and although they initially get on each others nerves, they eventually realize the rapport to help one another emerge from their emotional shells.