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Writer:
Penelope Gilliatt (screenplay)
Release Date:
8 September 1971 (USA) more
Tagline:
It's about three decent people. They will break your heart.
Plot:
Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 5 nominations more
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Schlesinger's finest film more (33 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Peter Finch | ... | Dr. Daniel Hirsh | |
| Glenda Jackson | ... | Alex Greville | |
| Murray Head | ... | Bob Elkin | |
| Peggy Ashcroft | ... | Mrs. Greville | |
| Tony Britton | ... | George Harding | |
| Maurice Denham | ... | Mr. Greville | |
| Bessie Love | ... | Telephone Operator | |
| Vivian Pickles | ... | Alva Hodson | |
| Frank Windsor | ... | Bill Hodson | |
| Thomas Baptiste | ... | Prof. Johns | |
| Richard Pearson | ... | Middle-aged Patient | |
| June Brown | ... | Female Patient | |
| Hannah Norbert | ... | Daniel's Mother | |
| Harold Goldblatt | ... | Daniel's Father | |
| Marie Burke | ... | Aunt Astrid |
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110 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Ontario) | Canada:R (Manitoba) | France:-16 | West Germany:18 | Australia:R | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R
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Ian Bannen was fired from the role of Daniel Hirsh shortly after filming began. Apparently, he was so nervous about what kissing another actor on screen might do to his career, he could not concentrate enough to even get going with the part. He later said that losing the role set back his career. more
Quotes:
Aunt Astrid:
Daniel, darling. You're looking very spruce.
[intercepts a canapé]
Aunt Astrid:
Have one of these. Now, tell me when are *you* going to give us all a nice surprise?
Daniel:
[baffled] Auntie...
Aunt Astrid:
Still holding out on us... well, it's terribly selfish of you. You *are* going to be very, very lonely...
Daniel:
I just haven't found the right person yet.
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Referenced in A Decade Under the Influence (2003) more
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Soave sia il vento more
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This was a step forward for Schlesinger. After the grim working class stories--A Kind of Loving, with Alan Bates and June Ritchie miserable over an unwanted pregnancy; Billy Liar with Tom Courtenay constantly fantasizing as a way of coping with his dull life--we got Darling, a slick bit of commercial film-making with Julie Christie. Then the trip to New York for Midnight Cowboy, a picture so empty, and so honored by the Academy, that I feared he would become just another hack, a la Clive Donner.
Instead we get a character study, one of the best films of the last three decades. Daniel Hirsch is drowning in respectability; a Jewish doctor who can't muster the courage to come out because the congregation wouldn't understand, so resigns himself to matchmaking attempts by his mother. Alex Greville works with high level job candidates, whom she can sleep with to chase the boredom away. She wants a husband, but her mother advises her to accept that half a loaf is better than none. Bob Elkin is the love object for both; a handsome and really shallow young man who thinks about his future a lot, and realizes that it doesn't involve either Alex or Daniel.
So many wonderful scenes: Bob and Alex visit friends for the weekend. Bob raids the fridge, finds some milk. Alex tells him it's mother's milk--phwoah! Daniel has a party; a woman starts yelling at her husband about the au pair girl he's been sleeping with. Bob wants to leave; his aesthetic sense is offended by this unseemly display of emotion. Daniel wants him to stay, to provide moral support, but Bob is just too selfish to listen. There is always the feeling that disaster is just around the corner, that the triangle will soon collapse.
Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch are just about perfect as the adults in this situation, and Murray Head, if he doesn't show any great acting ability, at least makes us believe in his desirability. He went on to perform roughly the same role as Annie Girardot's lover in La Mandarine.