Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...love with her. "I've been fooling you about not being on the make all this time. I am on the make, but I promise you that I am very manageable" he admits. Toby's manageability and his lack of it, plus Jane's well-disguised condition of approaching motherhood, are the elements of the drama which reaches an apex of pathos in the relations of two sensitive people in love. The circumstances surrounding Toby's introduction to the fact of Jane's pregnancy, amplified by his initial consignment of her to his file-drawer for virgins, send him into...
...Shaped Room. The plot may be soap-operatic, but sensitive direction and good performances by luminous Leslie Caron, hawk-faced Tom Bell and oldtime Vaudevillian Cicely Courtneidge help to make this story about love, loneliness and unwed motherhood more than worthwhile...
...Shaped Room. The plot may be soap-operatic, but sensitive direction, an understated screenplay, and good performances by luminous Leslie Caron, hawk-faced Tom Bell and oldtime Vaudevillian Cicely Courtneidge help to make this story about love, loneliness and unwed motherhood more than worthwhile...
...sound track turns on a spigot marked Brahms to cue every tender moment. But L-Shaped Room shrugs off these shortcomings to become a beautiful and refreshing film. Part of the credit goes to Director Bryan Forbes (Whistle Down the Wind), whose screenplay honestly makes the unwed-motherhood story a low-key masterpiece of candor and sensitivity. A larger share goes to Leslie Caron; she plays not a girl who "got into trouble" but a young woman of remarkable dignity who, after a loveless weekend affair, chooses the less convenient road. Faced with the insinuating soft sell of an abortionist...
Even children-at whom this VistaVision lollipop is obviously aimed-won't be suckers enough to swallow all of the raspberry-flavored plot; and a dragged-in reel or two dealing with Debbie's hankering to act in a Broadway play instead of settling down to foster-motherhood is just one more of show business' painful salutes to show business. But there is still plenty of rough-and-tumble fun and some good character bits played by Eileen Heckart and Alice Ghostley. Anyhow, it's spring...