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Candy

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A naive blond beauty (Ewa Aulin) meets a Mexican gardener, boozing Welsh poet (Richard Burton), hunchback, guru (Marlon Brando), surgeon and general.
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Renata Adler New York Times 05/09/2005
There is not enough material for a two-minute bawdy skit. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 10/23/2004
3/4
On the one hand, it's a lot better than you might expect, with scenes and lines of high comedy. On the other hand, it lacks the pure anarchy, the abandon, of Terry Southern's novel. Go to Full Review
Mike Massie Gone With The Twins 08/24/2020
3/10
The story proceeds as if made up on the spot with random visuals and without direction or purpose. Go to Full Review
Robert Kotlowitz Harper's Magazine 08/04/2020
The joke, if it ever really existed, has gone out of Candy in her film embodiment. In its place is a long, dreary vaudeville, six or seven acts' worth. Go to Full Review
Jesús Fernández Santos El Pais (Spain) 07/26/2019
Candy is an old film of episodes vaguely connected through its adolescent protagonist. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Penelope Houston The Spectator 07/12/2018
The most charitable thing to be said about Candy-not, on the whole, a film to encourage charitable thoughts-is that 'the actors may have enjoyed themselves. Go to Full Review
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Bruce M @BruceMc Jul 29 Reading the script is probably better than seeing the movie, as it's pretty funny although poorly directed and annoyingly edited. Walter Matthau and John Astin, though, seem like they're having fun. Pretty groovy, man. See more Alain E @AlainE Jan 18 I guess I was the intended audience for this long elaborate joke. Other professional and not reviewers are quite upset. The cast has assembled a variety of celebrities from the French singer Charles Aznavour to the American director John Huston and both Richard Burton and Marlon Brando. Walter Mattau is the hardcore paratrooper officer on a five year mission who demands that Candy show him the goods before he jumps to his last mission. We know it’s his last because he ends up jumping without his parachute. John Huston plays the neurosurgeon extraordinaire who performs a brilliant operation that may leave the patient alive but with the intelligence of an average cucumber. The surgical theater has seats for a large audience who clap. The surgical team is dressed in light pink scrubs that sadly have never been adopted in any hospital that I have ever worked. Ringo Star is a not very bright gardener. In the final scene every body is reunited. Available free on Tubi, so you can decide if it is your cup of tea. See more thiago s @Thiagostone 12/08/2024 filme mais ou menos o roteiro é fraco, eu só achei legal desse filme, o final que o diretor mostrou a cena rodando com os próprios cameras e o pessoal da orodução inteira se filmando no final do filme, de resto ruim. See more Shirley C 08/03/2024 I guess I liked the film's whimsical feel and it also works well as a time capsule for the decade, but that's the only good thing I can say about this film. The dialogue was terrible and the film felt like the sex fantasy of a 14-year-old boy. See more Bill C 03/29/2024 Really good time capsule. This is what Poor Things should have been. John Astin in two roles is a joy. See more Demetris A 03/28/2024 Greatest hollyWood movie. Filled with the greatest actors, only to have their glorious success collapse, for a piece of Candy!!! See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A naive blond beauty (Ewa Aulin) meets a Mexican gardener, boozing Welsh poet (Richard Burton), hunchback, guru (Marlon Brando), surgeon and general.
Director
Christian Marquand
Producer
Robert Haggiag
Screenwriter
Buck Henry
Production Co
Selmur Productions, Dear Film Produzione, Les Films Corona, American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 17, 1968, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 26, 2020
Runtime
2h 3m
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