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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. A middle-aged misfit struggles to raise her daughters, one popular and the other a promising science student.
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- Drama
- Paul Newman
- 1973-05-30
Paul Zindel. “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.
Ruth (Roberta Wallach) is given to rebellious acting out and seems destined to turn out like her mother, while Matilda (Nell Potts) is more thoughtful and likely to transcend her...
- (13)
- Paul Newman
- PG
- Joanne Woodward
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.
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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...
