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Petulia

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Petulia
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R,1hr 45min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama,Romance
Released:
January 1, 1968
Director:
Richard Lester
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain  ...more
Synopsis: Petulia is Richard Lester's ode to the Swinging Sixties: a time of psychedelic instability when neither those who were square, nor those who were hip, really had it right. George C. Scott is Archie Bollen, a divorced San Francisco doctor in the midst of "discovering himself." Julie Christie is Petulia Danner, a peculiar young beauty recently married into an established family. Archie's sterile apartment and detached, bemused manner exemplify his inability to emote. Petulia's forward nature and desperate ... Full Synopsis
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Keith Phipps, AMG Review
The first of director Richard Lester's rare diversions from comedy, Petulia, which followed Lester's Beatles films and the acidic satire of How I Won the War, nonetheless finds him expanding on the themes of his earlier work. Adapting John Haase's novel Me and the Arch Kook Petulia, the story of a brief, interrupted love affair between a middle-aged doctor (George C. Scott) and a young, with-it bride ... Full Review
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