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Cactus Flower

1969

Gene Saks

Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn, Jack Weston ...

6.8

1,856

Comedy. Romance Twenty-one year old Toni Simmons and middle aged married dentist Dr. Julian Winston are in love with each other. Toni values honesty above all else, but their relationship is based on a lie: Julian is not married. He initially told her this lie as not to make a long term commitment to her, but he now wants to marry her as she wants to marry him. Because she values honesty above all else, he feels he can't now tell her he's not married. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The three central performances (...) are so engaging that we find ourselves, despite ourselves, involved in their story (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Variety	"'Cactus Flower' drags, which is probably the worst thing that can be said of a light comedy. It's due to sloppy direction by Gene Saks and the miscasting of Walter Matthau"	NEG
United States	Howard Thompson The New York Times	"[It] has more charm, credibility, flow and even bloom [than the play]"	POS
United States	TV Guide	"Diamond's adaptation fails to provide any new wrinkles to the tired plot and Gene Saks's direction is only as good as the material he's been given."	NEG
United Kingdom	Tony Sloman Radio Times	"Hawn is enchanting and Matthau is always watchable, but the material is wafer thin and Bergman seems ill-cast and ill at ease (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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