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Mood:
- Feel GoodSentimentalSincereTouchingCaptivatingBittersweetEmotional
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Plot:
- Human NatureSelf DiscoveryLooking for LoveLove AffairParents and ChildrenLove and RomanceMind and SoulUnfulfillment more...
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Genres:
- DramaRomance
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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Place:
- New YorkUSA
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Audience:
- Date Night
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Praise:
- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedEssentialMasterpieceOscar WinnerCannes Festival WinnerPrestigious Awards
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Based on:
- Based on PlayBased on TV Series
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Attitudes:
- RealisticSlow
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Look:
- B&W
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Marty, 1955
English
USA
Profile of Marty
The mood of Marty is bittersweet, sentimental, and feel good. The plot centers around looking for love, human nature, and self discovery. It is a drama and romance movie. In approach, Marty is realistic. The pacing is slow. The setting is New York. Marty happens in the 1950s. Visually, it is black and white. It is based on a TV series and adapted from a play. Marty is known for being a Cannes festival winner, a masterpiece, and an Oscar winner. It is especially suggested for a date night.
Summary of Marty
Delbert Mann's big-screen remake of Paddy Chayefsky's 1953 teleplay, one of the most successful works of film's Golden Age, stars Ernest Borgnine as Bronx butcher, Marty Piletti. A good-natured man, if plain and overweight, the 34-year-old bachelor has become fed up with the dreariness of life with vacant, dead-end friends like Angie (Joe Mantell), omnipresent relatives like his cousin Tommy (Jerry Paris), and his nagging mother, Theresa (Esther Minciotti), with whom he shares a house. Often rejected by women, he feels that he is too unattractive to marry, and is far from eager to endure further humiliation. Still, Marty finds himself at a local dance hall, where he angrily refuses a man who offers him a few bucks to take home a blind date who has turned out to be a dog. The butcher seeks out the humiliated woman, Clara (Betsy Blair), who's in tears, and after he comforts her, they return to the dance. As Marty confesses similar experiences of his own to Clara, he realizes that he may have found the woman he's been looking for. Influenced by neo-realist masterpieces like UMBERTO D, Chayefsky's poignant, brilliantly observed kitchen-sink drama remains as persuasive as ever, as it explores the universal need to give and receive love.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 11 April 1955 |
| Runtime: | 90 min |
| Awards: | Cannes,Academy Awards |
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as Marty Piletti
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- 11.September.2010
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- by: Nooshi N.
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