The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
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Reviews 65% Audience Score 50+ Ratings Walter Elbertson (Timothy Bottoms), the handsome and restless son of an American doctor (Charles Baxter) isn't sure what he wants out of life. While touring...
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- Alan J. Pakula
- PG
- Maggie Smith
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Dennis Harvey 48 Hills. It was a peculiarly soft, slapsticky interlude for director Alan J. Pakula between such quintessentially hard-edged 1970s...
30 out of 30 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink. A lost film that deserves resurrection. WHORNER 28 July 2004. This heart-tugging April-August romance cannot be equaled for the lush Spanish scenery, excellent photography, haunting music, and courageous humor.
Sep 26, 2009 · With the magnificently wandering title Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, Pakula's third film is one of those immensely modest little 1970s dramedy gems that nobody talks about except for the couple that won Best Picture Oscars, but every time anyone sees one of them, their response is always the same: "holy shit, that was a great little mo...
Recommendations. American Walter Elbertson (Timothy Bottoms), in his late teens, is feeling lost within his family of overachievers. Thirtysomething Englishwoman Lila Fisher (Dame Maggie Smith) is...
May 4, 2013 · Rent It. Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing is about half a good movie. The set-up of two lovers trying to escape difficult existences by traveling through Spain is intriguing, though that may be due more to the presence of actors Timothy Bottoms and Maggie Smith than anything in the script.
Aug 5, 2019 · LOVE AND PAIN AND THE WHOLE DAMN THING. LOVE AND PAIN AND THE WHOLE DAMN THING. “Cheerfully dreary.“. Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz. Alan J. Pakula (“Klute”/”All the President’s Men”/”Sophie’s Choice”) directs this charming but modest summer romance melodrama/comedy about an awkward, asthmatic American 18-year-old, Walter ...
