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Mood:
- Feel GoodHumorousSentimentalTouching
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Plot:
- Musician's LifeUnlikely CoupleComing of AgeOpposites AttractObsessionFriendshipLooking for LoveLooking for Sex more...
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Genres:
- ComedyMusicExperimentalDramaRomance
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Time/Period:
- 60s
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Place:
- New YorkUSA
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Audience:
- Date Night
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Style:
- On the RoadStrong Female Presence
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealistic
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The World of Henry Orient, 1964
English
USA
Profile of The World of Henry Orient
The mood of The World of Henry Orient is sentimental, feel good, and humorous. The plot centers around adolescence vs. adulthood, looking for sex, and being single. It is a comedy, music-oriented, and drama movie. Stylistically, The World of Henry Orient is experimental, has a road movie structure, and stars a strong female character. In approach, it is realistic. The setting is New York. The World of Henry Orient happens in the 1960s. It is based on a book. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed. The World of Henry Orient is especially suggested for a date night.
Summary of The World of Henry Orient
Peter Sellers stars as Henry Orient, a New York concert pianist whose ego considerably outstrips his meager talent. Yet this seems to not have blunted his charm for Valerie Boyd (Tippy Walker) and Merrie Spaeth (Marian Gilbert), a pair of barely adolescent girls who have become infatuated with him. The two friends follow the hapless pianist everywhere, making it difficult for him to conduct a discreet romance with Stella (Paula Prentiss), a married woman. The suspicious Stella believes that the girls are spying on behalf of her jealous husband. In addition, Valerie's self-absorbed and adulterous mother, Isabel (Angela Lansbury), has come across a scrapbook the two girls have compiled on the pianist and, believing the worst, barrels into his apartment, accusing the musician of having seduced her daughter. Orient skillfully puts the woman's fears to rest and, before long, is coaxing her into his bed. When Valerie learns of her mother's fling with her idol, she's predictably devastated. To add insult to injury, her mother forbids her to see Merrie. The product of a more innocent time, the comedy retains great appeal as it deftly counterpoints the theme of the pleasures and pains of early adolescence with that of the foibles of adulthood. The cast is uniformly excellent, with comic genius Sellers near the peak of his powers as the eccentric pianist.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 19 March 1964 |
| Runtime: | 106 min |
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as Henry Orient
as Stella Dunnworthy
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- 17.September.2009
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- by: donp17
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