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Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing

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Summary

The aimless son of a doctor living in Spain falls madly in love with a much older woman he meets while cycling through the countryside. Despite her initial reluctance, she eventually succumbs to his charm and sincerity, but their romance is doomed to end in tragedy. Drama, starring Maggie Smith, Timothy Bottoms and Charles Baxter

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Tom Hutchinson

Alan J Pakula's political thrillers Klute (1971), The Parallax View (1974) and All the President's Men (1976), make him seem a social warrior, but this is an out-of-character delight with unexpected and refreshing romanticism. Maggie Smith plays a terminally ill spinster in Spain whose heartbeats click like castanets when she meets youngster Timothy Bottoms. Despite the fatal-illness undercurrent, sentimentality is kept at bay in this rare gem. Pakula died tragically in a road accident in November 1998.

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6.6/10

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Cast

rolenameLila FisherMaggie SmithWalter ElbertsonTimothy BottomsSpanish gentlemanEmiliano RedondoDr ElbertsonCharles BaxterMrs ElbertsonMargaret ModlinMelanie ElbertsonMay HeatherlyCarlLloyd BrimhallDr EdelheitElmer ModinTourist GuideAndres Monreal

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rolenameDirectorAlan J Pakula

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Theatrical distributor

Columbia-Warner Dists

Languages

English | Spanish

Formats

Colour

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