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That Cold Day in the Park is a 1969 psychological drama thriller film directed by Robert Altman and starring Sandy Dennis.Based on the novel of the same name by Richard Miles and adapted for the screen by Gillian Freeman, it was filmed on location in Vancouver, British Columbia, where the events occur.
That Cold Day in the Park: Directed by Robert Altman. With Sandy Dennis, Michael Burns, Susanne Benton, David Garfield. One day, Frances Austen, a rich but lonely woman, invites a young man from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him stay there--and has no intention of ever letting him leave.
- (2.3K)
- Drama, Thriller
- Robert Altman
- 1969-06-08
More's the pity. "That Cold Day in the Park" is pretty well done. Sandy Dennis supplies a convincing portrait of the repressed, sex-obsessed spinster. Michael Burns is adequate as the boy, in a role that makes small demands on acting ability. Gillian Freeman's script shows a good ear for dialog, especially during scenes in a birth-control ...
Sep 10, 2012 · The results are distressingly predictable (though, to be fair to Altman, this area of modern Gothic hadn't been quite so overworked in 1969). With signs of the visual daring evident in Altman's ...
Synopsis. A spinster goes to extraordinary lengths to assuage her loneliness in Robert Altman's 1969 drama. Wealthy Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis) conducts herself as if she were older than she actually is, but when she spies a blond youth (Michael Burns) sitting alone in a rain-swept Vancouver park, she takes him to her apartment.
Robert Altman’s final film before hitting the big time with M*A*S*H the following year, That Cold Day in the Park is a fascinating psychological drama that toys with its audience as much as its character do with each other.
