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6.3/10
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A middle-aged woman walks out on her husband and family in an desperate attempt to find herself.A middle-aged woman walks out on her husband and family in an desperate attempt to find herself.A middle-aged woman walks out on her husband and family in an desperate attempt to find herself.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 5 nominations total
Bobby Darin
- Franco
- (as Robert Darin)
William O'Connell
- Minister
- (as Wm. O'Connell)
Eleanor Bender
- Alice
- (uncredited)
Ingrid Bergman
- Self - Actress in 'Casablanca'
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- TriviaTeresa Wright was just 11 years older than Jean Simmons, who was playing her daughter.
- GoofsDuring the opening-credit sequence, many late-model 1960's cars are seen in flashback scenes supposedly set 15 years earlier.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Mary Wilson: If... if right now we were not married, if you were free, would you marry me again ?
- Alternate versionsThe film was originally submitted to the MPAA for an R rating. After United Artists found Richard Brooks' intended cut too depressing, the studio forced to cut the film into a "moviegoer friendly" cut that was rated M. Brooks' R-rated cut was released in other countries as intended but was not released in the United States until 2016.
- ConnectionsFeatures Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
- SoundtracksWhat Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
Music by Michel Legrand
Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
Sung by Michael Dees
Featured review
Serious but dated
This is a serious work about a bored wife. Some of it seems a little dated. Seen in 1999, the development of the story is quite predictable, although I figure it was less so 30 years ago. Didn't move me much. All in all, respectable stuff.
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- gilli
- May 9, 1999
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 57 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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