Amazon.com Essentials:
This is one video not to watch if you are melancholic by
nature, as this tale of middle-class alcoholism rings very true. Jack
Lemmon and Lee Remick are the besotted couple who find that life is
not always fun when viewed through rosé-colored glasses. He's
the San Francisco business executive who marries Remick and seduces
her into a cocktail culture that soon overpowers them both. It is not
a pretty picture when their life shatters around them, but this film
is extremely compelling for their performances. It is matched only by
Billy Wilder's Lost
Weekend and the more explicit Leaving Las
Vegas. This was nominated for five Academy Awards and won for
the title song by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer. Filmed by Blake
Edwards in 1962, it is based on a Playhouse 90 television
production from 1958, starring Cliff Robertson and Piper
Laurie. --Rochelle O'Gorman
