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Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971)
Director: Mark Robson
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Kurt Vonnegut's adaptation of his own off-Broadway play about a big game hunter (Steiger) who returns from the jungle after being believed dead for eight years. He finds his dim wife (York) turned intellectual, and undecided whether to marry a pacifist doctor or a vacuum cleaner salesman. Though these ingredients may sound promising, add a precocious child and you have all the ingredients for the tedious satire of American attitudes that it is. Steiger's overacting and the film's obvious theatrical origins don't help either.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Mark Robson
Producer: Lester Goldsmith
Cast: Rod Steiger, Susannah York, George Grizzard, Don Murray, William Hickey full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 105 mins
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