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Only on VHS

posted 16 years ago by imdb050106
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I saw this movie when I was 8 years old, and it totally repelled and fascinated me at the same time - 43 years later, nothing has changed!

Maureen O'Sullivan was 54 years old when this film was made, and although she was a great actress and wonderful in the role....It was just....weird. She looks like a pregnant Geritol lady.

In a way, the film was ahead of its time...Now it's possible for 54 year old ladies (and 70 year olds, if you've been reading the news) to have babies.

There are frank sexual discussions about being "in the mood", and lots of "naughty" jokes..Lots of shots of Connie whining to Jim Hutton to come home and make whoopie so she can get preggers.

This film is so interesting, because it's a very early early version of the sexual and toilet humor films that would come later on.

The set design and location shots give a real feel for a Darien-type community...and a much more repressive era.

Too bad a version isn't available on DVD, because cropping the wide screen for VHS results in lots of action being missed.

It's all so adult and mid-60's...- I got the worst craving to go out to Howard Johnson's for a turkey dinner afterward.

[–] rubyredjewel 12 years ago

In a way, the film was ahead of its time...Now it's possible for 54 year old ladies (and 70 year olds, if you've been reading the news) to have babies.

Um don't know where your from but women have been having late babies sincer the dawn of time! Now women have babies in their 40's & 50's because they CHOOSE to! But before it was common to use various means of birth control many a family in all parts of the US had families where there's almost 14-18 yrs between the oldest & youngest child. No it didn't happen to eveyone but this movie didn't bring up anything new!
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[–] eagle-78 12 years ago

It still would have been rare - at the time, the Guinness Book of Records listed the oldest known woman to give birth as Ruth Kistler at age 57 in 1956.