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Rachel, Rachel (1968)

Director: Paul Newman

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From Time Out Film Guide

An impressive directorial debut for Newman, Rachel, Rachel stars his wife, Joanne Woodward, and their daughter Nell Potts. An account of a spinster striving to break out of her frustrating job as a teacher and her demanding home life, looking after her mother, the film's virtues lie in the wry observation of Rachel's slipping into a second childhood when James Olson appears on the scene as a possible saviour. While in no way as powerful as Barbara Loden's Wanda, Newman's film none the less captures the quiet desperation of enforced life in sleepytown America.

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Director: Paul Newman

Producer: Paul Newman

Cast: Joanne Woodward, Estelle Parsons, James Olson, Kate Harrington, Bernard Barrow, Donald Moffat, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Nell Potts full cast

Duration: 101 mins


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