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Bookmark this pagePete 'n' Tillie (1972)
Director: Martin Ritt
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This starts out as one of those hard-boiled romances in which Matthau and Burnett, performing with characteristic professionalism, graduate from affair to marriage while Julius J Epstein's script supplies them with suitably grudging wisecracks. But then it gets taken over by a series of soap-style catastrophes: he screws his secretary, their baby dies, they separate, she's in a 'rest home'...but everything's really all right, of course. There's even a moment when you think she's going to marry campy Rene Auberjonois - unfortunately not. Often incidentally funny, though.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Martin Ritt
Producer: Julius J Epstein
Cast: Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page, Barry Nelson, Rene Auberjonois, Lee H Montgomery, Henry Jones, Kent Smith full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 100 mins
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