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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a 1972 American drama film produced and directed by Paul Newman. The screenplay by Alvin Sargent is based on the Pulitzer Prize -winning 1964 play of the same title by Paul Zindel.
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a play written by Paul Zindel, a playwright and science teacher. Zindel received the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for the work.
- Paul Zindel
- 1971
May 30, 1973 · The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds: Directed by Paul Newman. With Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Roberta Wallach, Judith Lowry. Middle-aged misfit Beatrice Hunsdorfer struggles to raise her two daughters, popular epileptic Ruth and promising science student Matilda, in this film version of Paul Zindel's stage play.
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- Drama
- Paul Newman
- 1973-05-30
“The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds” is about a beautiful mutation: a shy, quiet, intelligent girl who somehow finds the strength to survive inside a terribly disturbed family. At first, we think the movie is about the girl’s mother, a frumpy alcoholic played with great energy by Joanne Woodward.
In two acts, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds juxtaposes the explosive emotional conflicts of the Hunsdorfer family against the ordered, logical pursuits of science to...
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. PG 1973 1h 40m Drama. List. 77% Tomatometer 13 Reviews. 82% Audience Score 500+ Ratings. Widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer...
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- Drama
- PG
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds presents the themes of alienation and man’s inhumanity to man played out in the microcosm of the family. Life has not been kind to Beatrice Hunsdorfer, and she takes her frustration and hatred of the world out on those around her.
