Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film)
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Pakula tells their story in two ways. Most of the film is engagingly honest. There's a sad, funny scene in the motel room as Jerry mechanically undresses Pookie. There's a good scene in the fraternity house when Pookie gets drunk. A finely acted performance by Tim McIntire, as Jerry's roommate.
The Sterile Cuckoo. PG Released Oct 22, 1969 1h 48m Comedy Drama. List. 88% Tomatometer 8 Reviews. 65% Audience Score 500+ Ratings. Uptight college freshman Jerry Payne (Wendell Burton) finds a ...
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- Alan J. Pakula
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- Liza Minnelli
"The Sterile Cuckoo" is a coming-of-age film with certain similarities to "The Graduate" from two years earlier. Both films were made early in their careers by rising new directors; "The Graduate" was the second film to be directed by Mike Nichols, whereas "The Sterile Cuckoo" marked the directorial debut of Alan J. Pakula.
Jun 22, 2018 · Alan J. Pakula’s first movie, before Klute and The Parallax View and All the President’s Men, was a small-scale adaptation of a first novel, The Sterile Cuckoo by John Nichols, written when the author was only twenty-three and published in 1965. It’s a touching chronicle of a college romance that gets crushed under the weight of passing ...
Sep 12, 2009 · The Sterile Cuckoo is a movie unusually devoid of close-up shots: in fact it possesses a rather shocking plethora of extreme long shots of action. That is to say, many of the shots have the appearance of an establishing shot, yet go on for some length and have dialogue overlaid, so that we're clearly watching the plot happening in real time, at ...
Nov 19, 2019 · First up is…The Sterile Cuckoo, a comedy-drama about young love between two misfit college freshman directed and produced by Alan J. Pakula. The film is the first Pakula either directed and also the first he dual produced/directed. It stars Liza Minnelli and Wendell Burton.
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The Sterile Cuckoo is not as good as it should have been because it lacks consistency of tone. But parts of it are awfully good, and Miss Minnelli is one hell of an actress. Read More
