107 quotes found
“Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives.”
“Joanne Woodwards Mrs. Bridge is one of the best performances ever given on film of a middle-aged woman.”
“Another superb movie about a mature marriage grounded in a fundamental lack of communication is Dodsworth, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel.”
“Excellent films do exist on the subject, however, and one is a pure marriage movie in which Newman and Woodward make it work. Mr. and Mrs. Bridge exists to tell moviegoers that the marriage of thei...”
“When it came to portraying couples who never directly connected, the Newmans were the Olympic gold champions”
“It's very difficult to kill somebody in a movie, unless it was an accident.”
“... this film taps perfectly into the viewers sense of the world. It was a big, big hit, and one of Hollywoods best-remembered marriage movies, although by grounding itself in trendy political issu...”
“The story of a marriage was an excellent way to fulfill the goal of discussing class without discussing class, and to tell an audience that they were upwardly mobile.”
“The ghastly mother-in-law is well represented by a little comedy film of 1952: No Room for the Groom, directed by Douglas Sirk, the fine German director more famous for his melodramas that humanely...”
“The true marriage movie involving in-laws and children is a story about how marriage is directly affected by external characters who impact the central relationship in various ways.”
“Movies endorsed unwanted ideas by putting them into story form and resolving them up there on the screen. The goal was, as always, identification, but also relief.”
“Today I found an old friend.”
“Today I found an old friend. Ed Burns via Purple Violets”
“Self-awareness is the most overrated trick in the book. More than ambition, more than free will, more than getting on to the property ladder early. Right now I should be at the Little Hills, you pr...”
“In-laws were often used as plot devices to drive a happy couple apart, to destroy marital love and trust.”
“Don't worry so much about 'not supposed to'.”
“All medieval and classic cultures of the ancient world, including those on which Tolkien modeled his elves, routinely exposed their young and marriageable women to the fortunes of war, because bear...”
“And therefore a giant hammer of pure stupidity lashed out of the screen and felled me again. I lay mewling, clutching my head with my sweaty hands, whimpering for my Mommy to make it stop. MAKE IT ...”
“Just then, just when I thought I would be free from the repeated blows to my tender head of the Stupidity Hammer, the Stupidity Hammer rose up from the shining screen, drew back, whirled hugely, an...”
“If you're using half your concentration to look normal, then you're only half paying attention to whatever else you're doing.”
