Splendor in the Grass
There is a miracle in being young... and a fear
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 3, 2009
- Originally Released: 1961
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Natalie Wood, Pat Hingle & Warren Beatty | |
Performer: | Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden, Zohra Lampert, Fred Stewart, Gary Lockwood, Sandy Dennis & Phyllis Diller | |
Directed by | Elia Kazan | |
Edited by | Gene Milford | |
Screenwriting by | William Inge | |
Composition by | David Amram | |
Produced by | Elia Kazan | |
Director of Photography: | Boris Kaufman |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1961 -
Best Original Screenplay: William Inge
Entertainment Reviews:
3 stars out of 5 -- [A] landmark in Hollywood melodrama, standing squarely between elegantly overwrought classical studio style and the fresh, intimate immediacy of French New Wave.
Empire
...Here was innocence, here was sexual power, here was the Casanova who would, over time, be[come Warren Beatty]... -- Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly
Classic of repressed teenage sexuality.
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Movie Mom
Rating: 3/4 --
Splendor in the Grass is a prestigious, top-of-the-line, sensitively-handled melodramatic literalization of the axiom "If you touch yourself too much, you'll go crazy."
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Slant Magazine
The authority and eloquence of the theme emerge in the honest, sensitive acting of Mr. Beatty and Miss Wood.
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New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
The psychology may be simplistic, but the powerful portrayals from the cast - especially from Beatty - make that weakness seem like an irrelevance.
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Radio Times
If Splendor in the Grass is the truth, simple or complex, about men and women, then I've been living in a fool's paradise for fifty-five years.
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Esquire Magazine
Product Description:
Two young lovers find their awakening sensuality in conflict with both their own moral values and those of the small town in which they live. This intense, tragic film marked the screen debut of Warren Beatty. Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Actress--Natalie Wood. Academy Awards: Best (Original) Story and Screenplay.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 117,374
- UPC: 883929062454
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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