Promise Her Anything

Released Feb 22, 1966

1 hr. 38 min.

Romance

Comedy

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Michele O'Brien (Leslie Caron) recently lost her husband, so she moves, along with her infant son, from her suburban home to a New York City apartment. After contemplating her son's fatherless future, she decides to remarry and thinks her boss, child psychologist Philip Brock (Bob Cummings), would be a perfect mate. While she pursues Philip, she develops a love-hate relationship with her upstairs neighbor, an amateur porn director (Warren Beatty) who harbors a crush of his own.

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Steve D

It sure hasn't aged well.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/25/23

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Tom M

Caron and Beatty have good chemistry. The movie is hardly a masterpiece but it is harmless fun.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

04/01/21

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Very cute and engaging film; wonderfully sharp William Peter Blatty screenplay. In its special way, a classic.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Frances H

How can you mess up a flick with Leslie Caron, Warren Beatty, Keenan Wynn, Hermione Gingold and Cathleen Nesbit? Well this flick did it! A horrible script!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/28/20

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Pleasant little comedy with a scene stealing baby.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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Lightweight comic fluff with a solid cast and crew behind it. Warren Beatty plays an aspiring NYC filmmaker, well, A nudie film filmmaker, and finds inspiration when it meets an attractive widow at his apartment building, Leslie Caron, by including her toddler son as comic relief in his films. There's also something of a love triangle between Beatty, Caron and Caron's boss Robert Cummings, but it's all very silly and punctuated by lots of musical-like sequences and a surprising amount of ladies appearing in various states of undress for a film of it's time. The film was written by future author of "The Exorcist," William Peter Blatty, and was directed by Arthur Hiller. The film also features a very catchy theme song by Burt Bacharach, sung by the great Tom Jones. And look fast for a young Donald Sutherland in an uncredited role as an autograph seeking father.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Arthur Hiller

Director

Warren Beatty

Harley Rummel

Leslie Caron

Michele O'Brien

Bob Cummings

Dr. Philip Brock

Hermione Gingold

Mrs. Luce

Lionel Stander

Sam

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Dennis Schwartz

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Directed in an uninspiring way by Arthur Hiller.

Rated: C-

Aug 31, 2012

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Emanuel Levy

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Arthur Hiller proves he is the wrong director and Warren Beatty shows he is the wrong actor for this forthy satire of the changing sexual and family mores of the 1960s.

Rated: C

Apr 18, 2011

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Synopsis

Michele O'Brien (Leslie Caron) recently lost her husband, so she moves, along with her infant son, from her suburban home to a New York City apartment. After contemplating her son's fatherless future, she decides to remarry and thinks her boss, child psychologist Philip Brock (Bob Cummings), would be a perfect mate. While she pursues Philip, she develops a love-hate relationship with her upstairs neighbor, an amateur porn director (Warren Beatty) who harbors a crush of his own.

Director: Arthur Hiller
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Paramount
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 22, 1966, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 20, 2016

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