The Sterile Cuckoo

1969
PG
1h 47min

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In this romantic comedy, an eccentric girl forces a reluctant college student into an affair. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards including Best Song "Come Saturday Morning.

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Comedy Drama Romance

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Dirección
- Alan J. Pakula
Guionistas
- John Nichols
- Alvin Sargent
Elenco

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Dirección
- Alan J. Pakula
Guionistas
- John Nichols
- Alvin Sargent
Elenco

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Nominado a 2 premios Óscar
- 3 premios ganados y 7 nominaciones en total

Eddie Roe
(sin créditos)

Becki Davis

Philip S. Derfler

Sandy Faison

Nancy Putnam
(sin créditos)

Mark P. Fish

A. Frederick Gooseen

Austin Green

Pookie's Father
(sin créditos)

Elizabeth Harrower

Landlady
(sin créditos)

Dirección
- Alan J. Pakula
Guionistas
- John Nichols
- Alvin Sargent
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Trivia
After winning the part of Pookie Adams, Liza Minnelli had a copy of the script sent over to her mother, Judy Garland, who read it and thought the part of this troubled, friendless girl would be an unattractive role for her daughter. Minnelli says she became defensive and argued that Pookie was a great role for any actress, but that Garland was personally concerned Minnelli identified too closely with Pookie.

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When they are walking by the cows he's telling her about all the stuff he read in her letters and she's wearing a short skirt with a pink blouse. Then they show them from the back in a far away shot as they walking away from the cows and their clothing has changed to the ones they were wearing when they were flying the kite.

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'Pookie' Adams: [a little brassily, during her first tryst with Jerry] So, would you like to peel a tomato?
Jerry Payne: [confused] What?
'Pookie' Adams: [quieter, more seductively] Do you want to strip me?

Conexiones
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Babe: Pig in the City/Home Fries/Ringmaster/Very Bad Things/Savior (1998)

Bandas sonoras
Come Saturday Morning
Lyric Dory Previn Music Fred Karlin
Performed by The Sandpipers
A & M Records Recording Artists

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9/10

Loneliness when you're with somebody, loneliness when you're apart

A friend of mine once commented that she never liked the TV series "Courtship Of Eddie's Father" because "it was such a lonely little show." I understand what she meant. It wasn't that it was underpopulated, it just exuded an atmosphere of melancholia. "The Sterile Cuckoo" is much the same way. Even though Mary Ann "Pookie" Adams has found her guy, she can't escape the loneliness within. She's desperate, clinging, and beautiful in her need--but a pain to her college boyfriend who quickly outgrows her. There are monologues by Liza Minnelli in this film that are haunting (the story of her father spraying perfume on his bed, or the one with Pookie making a recording for her father out of a love letter she swiped). Most importantly, Minnelli makes Pookie easily identifiable to us. Sure, we get angry at her, frustrated with her childish games, but she never alienates the audience (or director Alan J. Pakula, who stays right with her on the bus as the film fades out). I don't think I've ever seen a portrait of loneliness and need conveyed as well as it is done here. Liza probably deserved an Oscar for this quiet tour-de-force--hers is an amazing achievement that has not been equaled. ***1/2 from ****