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The Subject Was Roses is a 1968 American Metrocolor drama film directed by Ulu Grosbard. The screenplay by Frank D. Gilroy is based on his 1964 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same title. The film stars Patricia Neal, Martin Sheen and Jack Albertson. Albertson won an Academy Award as best supporting actor and Neal was nominated as best actress.
The Subject Was Roses: Directed by Ulu Grosbard. With Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen, Don Saxon. A young man returning home from World War II finds himself caught up in his parents' turbulent relationship.
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- Ulu Grosbard
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- Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen
Synopsis. Young veteran Timmy Cleary returns to his Bronx home at the end of World War II and is soon disillusioned to find his parents' marriage filled with discord, quarreling, and recriminations. Previously his mother Nettie's pride and joy, Timmy now establishes rapport with his salesman father, John, and attempts to reconcile his parents ...
The Subject Was Roses. Roger Ebert February 04, 1969. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Frank Gilroy's "The Subject Was Roses" was an extraordinary play, and it has been filmed with the greatest care, but it fails as a movie. It is hard to say exactly why.
The Subject Was Roses is a Pulitzer Prize -winning 1964 play written by Frank D. Gilroy, who also adapted the work in 1968 for a film with the same title. Background. The play premiered on Broadway at the Royale Theatre on May 25, 1964, starring Jack Albertson, Irene Dailey, and Martin Sheen, and directed by Ulu Grosbard.
- Frank D. Gilroy, Charles Arrigo
- 1965
Summaries. A young man returning home from World War II finds himself caught up in his parents' turbulent relationship. When Timmy Cleary (Sheen), comes home from soldiering, he's greeted by the open but strained arms of his two parents, John and Nettie, (Neal and Albertson).
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