Is this movie any good?


~ I just saw the movie trailer and it interested me. So I wandted to know from those who have seen it. What they thought?



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Well, Sunflower, I saw it for the first time on TCM, and IMHP, IT STINKS!!!

It's a clumsy, disjointed tale of an extremely dysfunctional Southern family (are there any Southern families in film and literature that AREN'T dysfunctional?). The direction gave it the look and feel of an amateur home-movie.
The acting wasn't bad under the circumstances, except for Karl Malden and Angela Lansbury, who turned the parents into scenery-chewing cartoon characters.

If you really want to see it, I'd advise you to wait until it's on TV again; don't waste your money on a DVD.

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It's a clumsy, disjointed tale of an extremely dysfunctional Southern family (are there any Southern families in film and literature that AREN'T dysfunctional?).
They were from Cleveland, which wasn't in the South last time I checked! Nice generalization though...




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Excellent, underrated film, one of Frankenheimer's best. Great characters and dialog with fine performances from the whole cast. A nice sense of atmosphere despite the studio sets. Don't miss it.

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...very, very good. The family is kind of pathetic, but far from dysfunctional. The dysfunctional one is Warren Beatty as "Barry-Barry", the adored older son. He gives a very good portrayal of a beautiful psychopath who ruins lives. Though he isn't a murderer, he could end up that way some day.

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...a case study indeed;

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no

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It's got a good cast, but otherwise...I give it the wavy hand.

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I don't think you can determine the quality of
a film based on trailer.
Watch it & develop your own opinion.
Personally, I think one needs to see this film more than once to understand the subtle overtones that make Beatty's character the way he is.

There is an overt connection to sexual abuse by his mother, & the passivity of his father that leads him to be abusive toward all women.

I have heard rumors that Barbra Streisand's character in "Nuts" was loosely based on Beatty's character in this film.
It's definitely worth seeing...if only to note the emerging injection of psycho-sexual violence in films during the 1960's.

But we in it shall be remembered;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers

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It's a very good, but disturbing movie, well worth seeing. About ninety-eight percent of it takes place in Cleveland, which is on the south shore of Lake Erie, a region most geographers do not classify as "Southern".

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