Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790733937 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Special Edition, NTSC ISBN: 0790733935 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: February 03, 1998 Running Time: 130 minutes Sales Rank: 18506 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 1961
Amazon.com essential video: Elia Kazan's pedal-to-the-metal approach to psychosexual melodrama paid off handsomely when he had layered material by Tennessee Williams or John Steinbeck to work with. The very raw material here is an original by hot-blooded playwright William Inge, about a pair of teenagers in the American Midwest in the 1920s whose lives are ruined by the repressive sexual climate of the period. The girl, played by Natalie Wood, is literally driven batty by her pent-up adolescent lust and ends up in the bin---which admittedly plays better than sounds, because the hunk she yearns for is the young and almost impossibly handsome Warren Beatty. This is a very lush and beautiful movie, but also a deeply silly one. It's grade-A American cheese, with a pinch of dime-store Freud on top.--David Chute
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Rating: - The first movie that ever made me cry myself to sleep
The first time I watched this movie I was only 22 years old. I had only been married one month to a man I didn't want to be with. I still yearned for my first and only true love; the same man I am still in love with 26 years later. I remember crying myself to sleep that night as I related my own story to Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty in SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS. The similarities were astonishing. While this movie isn't for everyone, if you've ever been in love with the same man you know you can never have again, it is a "must see".
Rating: - ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES
Thankfully, I did not grow up in this era, and everything I have read and heard about it is obviously not entertaining. It is, therefore, even more amazing to me how entertaining this movie is for me. First of all, the chemistry between the beautiful Natalie Wood and the handsome Warren Beatty is off the charts. They are so young, especially her, but they are such masters of their craft even at their young ages. This movie has the depressing events of the times woven through the lives of the characters such as people jumping from windows after the stock market crashed.
First love, young oppressed love is the central theme. "Good girls" and "bad girls" and "boys will be boys" relay the double standard message of the times and of the movie. I can almost feel the pain of Bud and Deanie who are so much in love, but are not allowed to physically express it. Even though Bud wants Deanie and Deanie wants ... Read More
Rating: - I didn't know this was a silent film
Well, there was NO sound on this DVD, so I didn't watch it. Into the garbage! Must have been a defective DVD.
Rating: - great acting!
Nataile Wood gives a great preformance in this movie, its a beauitful love story that how alotof meaning to it. i love this movie!
Deanie and Bud are high school sweethearts in thier 1920's little town, they love each other and Bud plans to marry Deanie. his father wants him to go to college first. Bud also wants their Relationship to go to the next leavel. Deanie though is not ready, so Bud finds a girl who is and brakes up with Deanie, after seeing the girl in class, Deanie can't take it...
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