The Sterile Cuckoo

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Martin B 03/03/2023 Lisa Minelli's best acting performance in my view. A turbulent time. Yet this movie highlights the insecurity and angst of young people out on their own for the first time in a more tranquil setting highlighting their turmoil. A brilliant move. The plot, traditional Northeast setting, the 1950's VW Beetle, a touchstone of the times for many of us. A must see. See more Emilio T @MilloTPue 09/30/2020 Nice, tender, inconclusive, atypical young love story, whose main strength comes in the elegance in the way it is treated, and the great work of Minelli, who expresses fragility at the same time of a irreverent sense of humour. See more steve d 07/17/2020 It hasn't aged terribly but it has become forgettable. See more 06/19/2017 Great movie. Liza Minnelli does an awesome job. See more 06/14/2016 I thought for sure she was gona turn all psycho as a result on unstability, I could relate to her ability to lie so easy, having had lived with such a storey teller. See more 01/29/2016 Essentially a study of first love. The two leads are wonderful. Liza Minelli is magnificent as the needy but snobbish, homophobic and self-centred Pookie Adams. Her 5 minute phone conversation that demands she show rage, joy, sorrow, fear, honesty and desperation all in one take surely deserved an Oscar (she received one very soon after for Cabaret anyhow). I loved the natural setting, thanks to the director. Some may say it was too pretty, giving the film a too glossy finish. And we only really get to know Pookie and not Jerry. I would agree but taken for what it is, it achieves what it intended. Today, Pookie would be diagnosed with a mental condition (bi-polar/fantasist?)and we could study her more. But I like that the romance isn't really talked about, that Jerry remains so passive throughout. There is enough interest in what Pookie is going to get up to next to keep the movie moving along. See more Read all reviews

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