Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
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33% of users liked it
(146 ratings)
American GI Harry Walden (Martin Balsam) emerged from a harrowing experience in WWII to find himself living an outwardly-happy but inwardly-empty and tedious existence in the post-war U.S. He is an eye doctor, successful in his work, but unfulfilled spiritually and emotionally. He and his wife Rita… More American GI Harry Walden (Martin Balsam) emerged from a harrowing experience in WWII to find himself living an outwardly-happy but inwardly-empty and tedious existence in the post-war U.S. He is an eye doctor, successful in his work, but unfulfilled spiritually and emotionally. He and his wife Rita (Joanne Woodward) have a boring existence, with their biggest issue being what kind of wallpaper to choose when they redecorate their apartment. They are dysfunctional, materialistic, and utterly lost. Rita is neurotic and unhappy, especially after her mother (Sylvia Sidney) dies. They decide to visit France and go to the battlefield where Harry once spent a night in the company of three dead German soldiers. The trip is intended to reawaken their deadened humanity. Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams is a challenging, slow and thoughtful depiction of the corroding effects of a materialistic lifestyle. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi
- Directed By
- Gilbert Cates
- Genres
- Drama, Classics, Special Interest
PG,
- In Theaters
- Oct 21, 1973 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
The midlife crisis of a bourgeois housewife is the center of this domestic melodrama, which flaunts the Oscar-nominated turns of Joanne Woodward in the lead and Sylvia Sidney as her tyrannical mother, whose death precipitates major family crises.
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
Presents the midlife crisis of a New York housewife whose two children have grown up and left home.
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Cast
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Joanne Woodward
as Rita Walden
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Martin Balsam
as Harry Walden
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Sylvia Sidney
as Mrs. Pritchett
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Dori Brenner
as Anna
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Teresa Hughes
as Betty Goody
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Nancy Andrews
as Mrs. Pat Hungerford
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Win Foreman
as Fred Goody
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Sol Frieder
as Mr. Goldblatt
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Lee Jackson
as Carl Hurlbutt
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Gaetano Lisi
as Student in Theater
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Helen Ludlam
as Grandmother
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Peter Marklin
as Joel
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Charlotte Oberley
as Waitress
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Minerva Pious
as Mrs. Bimberg
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Ron Richards
as Bobby Walden
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Marian Swan
as Nurse
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Dennis Wayne
as Dancer in Dream
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Dave Thomas
as Chauffeur
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Grant Code
as Grandfather
