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A salesclerk at Macy's department store finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with a musician who does not even remember her.A salesclerk at Macy's department store finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with a musician who does not even remember her.A salesclerk at Macy's department store finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with a musician who does not even remember her.
- Nominated for 5 Oscars
- 1 win & 11 nominations total
E. Nick Alexander
- Guido Rossini
- (as Nick Alexander)
Loraine Abate
- Maria
- (uncredited)
Jean Alexander
- Charlene
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- TriviaNatalie Wood said that working on this film was "the most rewarding experience I had in all films, all the way around."
- GoofsWhen Rocky is lying down on Barbie's bed after she has left to sit at the kitchen table, only the second and third buttons on Rocky's shirt are done up, his shirt not tucked into his pants. In the next shot when he is about to get up, the second, third and fourth buttons on the shirt are done up, the shirt still not tucked into his pants. In the next shot as Rocky is now off the bed, all but the top button on his shirt are done up, the front of his shirt now tucked into his pants.
- Quotes
Barbie: You know me in the cold weather - how I love to be in love. We are in love, aren't we? Really in love.
Rocky Papasano: Yeah - you with yourself, and me with myself.
- Crazy creditsAs if to recognize the importance of the script, Arnold Schulman's credit appears right after the main title. This was a rarity in an era when screenplay credits traditionally appeared third to last, before the producer and director cards.
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Natalie and Steve Never Better
This film has always struck me as Natalie Wood and Steve
McQueen's best work in movies. Both would go on to successes
and failures, but neither would seem as natural and as unaffected
on screen again.
The story of a good working-class Italian girl in New York who gets
pregnant by a man she hardly knows, is very strong stuff for 1963.
So is their decision to have an abortion. Roe vs. Wade was nearly
a decade in the future. Mulligan shows a very gritty, dirty, New York
which has emerged from the 50s as a crumbling relic of a city,
nowhere as clean and shiny as it is today. McQueen is a callow
young musician, not looking to settle down with anyone, let alone a
single pregnant girl, even if he is at fault.
The trip to a bad neighborhood to get the abortion is chilling, and
Wood's absolute terror is genuine here. McQueen being
reluctantly honorable is very sexy here. The rest of the film with her
facing down her overly protective Neanderthal brothers and getting
her own apartment, follows the young lovers as they try to do the
right thing. Steve's poster--"Better wed than Dead," is a sweet
coda.
I loved this movie. It struck this teenager at the time, as a very
sophisticated film. Natalie Wood is incandescently beautiful in
black and white and still the loner, McQueen's intensity is a bit
more subtle than usual. Good supporting cast. This was an era
where the final black and white movies were being made--TO KILL
A MOCKING BIRD, BIRD MAN OF ALCATRAZ, THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY, PSYCHO were the last gasp of this
medium.
Long overdue for DVD release.
McQueen's best work in movies. Both would go on to successes
and failures, but neither would seem as natural and as unaffected
on screen again.
The story of a good working-class Italian girl in New York who gets
pregnant by a man she hardly knows, is very strong stuff for 1963.
So is their decision to have an abortion. Roe vs. Wade was nearly
a decade in the future. Mulligan shows a very gritty, dirty, New York
which has emerged from the 50s as a crumbling relic of a city,
nowhere as clean and shiny as it is today. McQueen is a callow
young musician, not looking to settle down with anyone, let alone a
single pregnant girl, even if he is at fault.
The trip to a bad neighborhood to get the abortion is chilling, and
Wood's absolute terror is genuine here. McQueen being
reluctantly honorable is very sexy here. The rest of the film with her
facing down her overly protective Neanderthal brothers and getting
her own apartment, follows the young lovers as they try to do the
right thing. Steve's poster--"Better wed than Dead," is a sweet
coda.
I loved this movie. It struck this teenager at the time, as a very
sophisticated film. Natalie Wood is incandescently beautiful in
black and white and still the loner, McQueen's intensity is a bit
more subtle than usual. Good supporting cast. This was an era
where the final black and white movies were being made--TO KILL
A MOCKING BIRD, BIRD MAN OF ALCATRAZ, THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY, PSYCHO were the last gasp of this
medium.
Long overdue for DVD release.
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- gregorybnyc
- May 13, 2004
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Ljubav sa nepoznatim
- Filming locations
- 131 East 10th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA(Rocky and Angie run through St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery trying to escape her brothers)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $8,500,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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