Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)

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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

PG, 1 hr. 27 min.
Directed By
Gilbert Cates
Genres
Drama, Classics
In Theaters
Oct 21, 1973 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • 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.

  • 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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