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Writers:
Joanne Greenberg (novel)
Gavin Lambert (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
29 October 1977 (Sweden) more
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A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 nominations more
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Cast

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Kathleen Quinlan ... Deborah Blake
Bibi Andersson ... Dr. Fried
Ben Piazza ... Jay Blake
Lorraine Gary ... Ester Blake
Martine Bartlett ... Secret Wife
Margo Ann Berdeshevsky ... Drawing Patient
Darlene Craviotto ... Carla
Reni Santoni ... Hobbs
Susan Tyrrell ... Lee
Signe Hasso ... Helene
Norman Alden ... McPherson
Sylvia Sidney ... Miss Coral

Dennis Quaid ... Shark, Baseball Pitcher

Karin de la Penha ... Nurse (as Elizabeth Dartmoor)
Robert Viharo ... Anterrabae
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96 min
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Natalie Wood had planned to produce as well as star (in the role of Deborah which was eventually played by Kathleen Quinlan) in this film, but those plans never materialized. more
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Interesting for the cast..., 4 March 2007
Author: dbdumonteil

This is a film which came too late.Anybody who sees it is going to compare it to Anatole Litvak's "the snake pit" (1948).But that was then and this is now and the evolution is barely discernible.If "snake pit" was (unfairly) dismissed as obsolete,what can we say of a movie which was produced thirty years later and (roughly) depicts the same milieu? The most interesting thing in that average-to-good foray into psychiatry is its cast.Bergmanian Bibi Anderson is ideally cast as the shrink who tells the disappointed heroine "I've never promised you a rose garden".But there are also former glories such as Signe Hasso and Sylvia Sydney and future stars (Dennis Quaid).

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