I'm not sure it fits with today's sensibilities or current film fashions. It's a nice film. Nobody is plotting to do bad stuff to anyone else. No murders, no fights, no spies, no blood, no women in peril, no cheating. Nobody blows up a helicopter. It's about ordinary people who, as hunkra says, look like plain people and not like movie stars playing ordinary people. Working-class Italians in the Bronx. The film is great for the way it evokes that world and its ordinary problems. Paddy Chayefsky deserved that writing Oscar.hunkra wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 9:39 amI agree! It's a wonderful film, in that romantic films of that time usually centered around attractive, socialite types falling for each other. One of the rare times a film featured a two "plain" people falling in love. Interesting tidbit, the actress Betsy Blair almost couldn't do the role because she had been blacklisted as a Marxist by the McCarthy goons. But since she was married to Gene Kelly, some strings were pulled and she got the part!
And it's only 90 minutes long. It might come around on TCM this month. And you can always get it on Amazon Prime.