I can't say I have enjoyed many williams based movies before, except "streetcar". Mostly I find them a bit boring and I don't really feel the depth that I suppose I am meant to feel (e.g.,. like I do in Bergman movies).
This one managed to combine Character exploration and "drama" with a rather fast pace and a lot of funny jokes so I quite enjoyed it. I also think it benefited from being shot in B/W
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It came on today and I kept saying to myself how boring and annoying! I was wrong it was funny and different.All the stars were great.I'm so sick of the same holiday movies every year.I loved it.
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You know, I thought the same thing. It was just on TCM.
But I started watching and got caught up. I mean, it wasn't some masterpiece of film making, but it was a thoughtful adaptation of a stage play that had a lot of little truths that still resonate today.
I'm glad I caught it and gave it a chance.
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I agree, I flicked on TCM about 1/4 of the way through, and it was such a nice different sort of holiday film. One of them I wished I had seen from the beginning.
shareI saw it last night too on TCM.I caught it by accident channel surfing and it had just started so I caught the entire film.I'm crazy about both male leads Tony Franciosa and Jim Hutton and I'd never heard of the movie.I enjoyed every bit of it.Jane Fonda's Corrie in "Barefoot in the Park" seemed like she had a little of Isabelle from this film in her.I also like seeing real life brother and sister Jack and Mabel Albertson who played the roles of police desk sergeant and the mother of Lois Nettleton's character.Lois is another fine actress whose face you don't see often enough on tv.Great seeing John Astin too.Too bad the movie is not being repeated this month.I agree with everyone.I ENJOYED this Christmas movie because it was not sugary,or about Santa,or even someone looking for a miracle.The father-in-law didn't rush in and hand out jobs and money at the end and the group didn't all go to the big mansion and sing holiday songs while the credits rolled.Thanks for that!I also thought the drunken carolers who were seen thru out the movie were funny.When they were taken home by the police and ended up back at the police station I laughed out loud.
Synopsis "Period of Adjustment"(1962)
Shortly after his discharge from the hospital where he has been treated for the shakes, Korean War veteran George Haverstick marries Isabel, his nurse, a good-natured, romantic Southern belle. Their honeymoon gets off to a bad start when Isabel discovers that George has quit his job, that his "station wagon" is actually a hearse, and that their wedding night is to be spent in a cheap motel. Despite his conspicuous display of masculinity, George feels inadequate, and to avoid failure on his wedding night he gets drunk and passes out in a chair. The next morning, he takes his disenchanted bride to Tennessee to visit a wartime buddy, Ralph Baitz, who married for money but now genuinely loves his wife, Dorothea. Because of trouble with his domineering in-laws, the McGills, Ralph has decided to quit the family business, and Dorothea has left him, convinced by her parents that she, too, will be abandoned. When Ralph's in-laws arrive to claim their daughter's possessions, a fight ensues, and everyone ends up at the police station. George and Isabel, forgetting their own problems, commiserate with Ralph and Dorothea. With their help and Ralph's gift of a fur coat to convince Dorothea that he isn't after her money, the Baitzes become reconciled. George confesses his nervous anxiety, and Isabel lovingly reminds him that the best thing about marriage is that there is so much time to work out problems.
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I've seen this enough to be able to recite the dialogue. Heck, I've even stayed in an "Old Man River Motel" (that motel has three syllables in it, BTW). And my husband left my little blue zipper bag in the car so I had to get it myself! I am especially fond of Tony Franciosa's performance but everyone was good, from the cocker spaniel on up. And what a terrific batch of one-liners.
I will never forget the image of that 1939 Cadillac hearse being lowered on that garage lift with Isabel (Jane Fonda) in the passenger's seat glaring down at her new husband (Jim Hutton). "Three-fifty, Mac, and all your troubles are over."
This December will be the first time I've taught "Period of Adjustment" without first teaching a couple of the major Tennessee Williams plays. I'll bring in clips from "Streetcar" and "Cat" (to explain who Skipper is/was), but the comedy and insights are--as the above comments say--pretty solid even without those other references. Though I love the zingers and physical comedy, my favorite line in the whole movie might be: "Who cares about the heroes of the last war? They're too busy planning the next one."
shareI would've like to have seen a sex scene between Lois Nettleton and Jane Fonda.
shareI'm a relatively new fan of Jim Hutton, and I can't wait to see this movie. :)
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I adore this movie. These past few years, I've been watching it 3 or 4 times each holiday season.
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I love Period of Adjustment, from the play & the movie. The performances were great and the plot was awesome & witty. My favorite couple was Jane Fonda and Jim Hutton.I just wish that it was DVD.
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I watched it a few times over the holiday season.
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I enjoyed the film.... 8/10. I don't get why all the low ratings.
shareI give it a 6/10. Well plotted as any Tennessee Williams play, unusually comic for him, but I disliked every character in the whole film. Fonda looked hot, though, and frankly after awhile that eye-candy aspect was the only reason I kept watching.
shareThanks for the posts guys. Haven't seen this Williams one. Tiffany is still one of my faves of his. Other than Streetcar & The Fugitive Kind (my old painting studio years later in Milton NY made to look Southern) many of his
are a labor to get thru if not of a literary bent. Suddenly Last Summer got
to me when I was old enough for it.
PoA is on again. Sept 25 4:30pm and Dec 21 4pm.
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=1041
it was OKWhen there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
It's a lovely movie. I watched it four times last Christmas season. This year? We'll see what happens.
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I watch it every year. Jane Fonda carrying on and Hutton all conflicted and trying to act tough, Franciosa feeling liberated by separating himself from his inlaw's pointed, angry finger, and Nettleton as the insecure wife who wishes her husband would just try and get along with her dad and let her little boy be who he is not what daddy wishes he'd be. Anybody pick up on Williams' inclusion of the "sissy" son and his "doll"?
I like that each character has the camera on them and reflects as they do on the past and their current circumstances.
Great assessment of the movie! I agree with you completely.
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