72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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The Happy Ending / Amaiera zoriontsua

Richard Brooks
USA
Synopsis
Boredom and disillusion with her predictable marriage to Fred and her relationship with their teenage daughter drive Mary, a middle-aged housewife, to drink and pills. Leaving home, she heads for Nassau. Following a disastrous affair she returns to Denver, but instead of going home she takes a job, rents an apartment, and enrolls in night school. When Fred meets her there one evening it seems that their relationship may just be able to work again, but in a very different way.
Director
Richard Brooks
Screenplay
Richard Brooks
Photography
Conrad Hall
Edition
George Grenville, Murray Jordan
Music
Michel Legrand
Cast
Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Teresa Wright
Running Time
112 m.
Country
USA
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