Beautiful emotional story, very much like a theatre play, about Gene (Gene Hackman), a young man struggling with his relationship with his aging father (Melvyn Douglas).
The film plays out on a small scale, mostly indoors between the family, mother, father, sister and Gene. It’s about the emotional impact that these family relations can have and how you feel and relate towards each other. How much do you do for your parent? How do you express love and do we…
Beautiful noir with John Garfield and Shelley Winters. I love these small stories, almost theatre like settings, lots of drama but still relatable. Real good characters.
The film is about Nick Robey (John Garfield) who commits a crime and escapes from the police, he meets Peg (Shelley Winters), a young woman and hides out at her home where he threatens her family.
The story focuses on Nick, Peg and her father, mother and young brother. The interaction between them is…
Funny, but not thát funny...
It has some nice moments, but for me the movie missed on pacing and timing. It's a bit of a different style, slapstick mixed with a very dry humor. Reminded me a bit of the Monsieur Hulot movies. It also spoofs a bit french crime movie characters like Le Samouraï.
I enjoyed some gags, the lead actor Pierre Richard has a funny look and slapstick-like mannerisms. But the movie as a whole didn't work for…
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What horrible writing. Really, it's been a long time since i've seen such weirdly motivated and unrealistic storylines. It's strange mix between comedy and drama, where in my opinion the story doesn't do justice at all to the heavy subjects it's dealing with: co-parenting, loss, abandonment, homosexuality, death, love. Everything is packed and jammed into one story and the daughter is going through all of this but she doesn't shred a tear...
The mom is a straight out psychopath; first…
