That Cold Day in the Park

That Cold Day in the Park (1969)

  • 40% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 56% of users liked it
    (181 ratings)

A spinster goes to extraordinary lengths to assuage her loneliness in Robert Altman's 1969 drama. Wealthy Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis) conducts herself as if she were older than she actually is, but when she spies a blond youth (Michael Burns) sitting alone in a rain-swept Vancouver park, she takes… More

R, 1 hr. 31 min.
Directed By
Robert Altman
Written By
Gillian Freeman
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Jun 8, 1969 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Howard Thompson, New York Times

    It's a cold, ugly and meandering business.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    The plot is too improbable to be taken seriously, and yet director Robert Altman apparently does take it seriously.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    Robert Altman's inauspicious first theatrical feature -- recognizably his work, meandering zooms and all, but the material is somewhat pretentious and hackneyed.

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  • Eric B


    "That Cold Day in the Park" is historically interesting as one of director Robert Altman's earliest films, but its main virtues are the story and Sandy Dennis' complex performance. Dennis enters the film in her usual insecure, whiny guise playing Francis, a lonely… More

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