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Robert Mulligan
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Set in bucolic 1935 Connecticut, director Robert Mulligan's chiller follows identical Perry twins Niles (Chris Udvarnoky) and Holland (Martin Udvarnoky) as a string of tragedies befalls their family. With the Perry clan still reeling from the untimely demise of the boys' father, their mother (Diana Muldaur) ends up paralyzed, and a corpulent cousin is impaled on a pitchfork. But Niles soon begins to see a link between Holland and the "accidents."
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Gently nostalgic, Robert Mulligan's tender and insightful look at three teenage boys' approach to the mysteries of love and sex takes place on the coast of New England during World War II. While his two friends devote their time to investigating the process of getting laid, Hermie finds himself falling in love with the young wife of a U.S. serviceman away at the war. Stumbling over their misconceptions, fears, and ignorance, the boys fumble their way toward adulthood during their last summer of youth and innocence. Noted for his skill with young actors, Robert Mulligan (TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD) draws out the insecurities of growing up from his cast and will touch viewers reminiscing about their own coming of age.
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Robert Mulligan's ("Bloodbrothers") old-fashioned romantic comedy about a successful adulterous affair was adapted for film from a two-character Broadway play by Bernard Slade, who ... does the screenplay. It's about a couple with "six children between them" but not married to each other, who fall in love at first sight when they meet accidently at California's Sea Shadows Inn in 1951. George (Alan Alda) is a 27-year-old married New Jersey CPA and Doris (Ellen Burstyn) is a 24-year-old California housewife, who married at 18. They hit it off so well the first time, that they decide to secretly meet in the same inn every year at the same time. The illicit affair spans around 26 years, as we witness every five years or so how they grow into middle-age (witnessing a birth, some deaths (George's son is killed in Vietnam), lots of guilt and growing idealogical differences due to the Vietnam War) and how the landscape of America drastically changes. The neurotic George evolves into a stodgy know-it-all businessman, while the demure Doris changes to look like a hippie and then into a successful power-hungry businesswoman.
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Mulligan studied at Fordham University before serving with the United States Marine Corps during World War II. At war's end, he obtained work in the editorial department of the New York Times newspaper but left to pursue a career in television.
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Blonde, blue-eyed supporting, character, and occasional leading actor Richard Mulligan has worked on stage, screen, and television. He made his feature-film debut in Love With the Proper Stranger (1963), but only occasionally appeared in movies through the early '70s. One of his notable roles was that of the arrogant General Custer opposite Dustin Hoffman in Arthur Penn's Western epic Little Big Man (1970).
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Mulligan repeatedly stages intimate conversations between Rocky (Steve McQueen), a musician, and Angie (Natalie Wood), a Macy’s salesgirl whom Rocky has gotten into trouble, in extremely public settings. The title sequence establishes the mood of the film: an empty musicians’ union hall slowly fills with musicians looking for work. The chaotic movements and activities of the surrounding people, all heading in different directions and concerned with their own affairs, make meaningful communication between Rocky and Angie impossible. Rocky does not even remember his one-night stand with Angie, who angrily walks out. The union hall and the fifth floor of Macy’s (where their second encounter is set) become settings that frustrate contact, preventing any growth of romantic feeling between the two. Indeed, romance seems impossible in an urban setting.
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