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Sunshine (1973)

Director: Joseph Sargent

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From Time Out Film Guide

Based on a true story and originally made for TV (where it ran 130 minutes), this contains some redeeming features behind its blandness. At worst it's the Love Story of the Woodstock generation, with its couple and their alternative society patronisingly depicted for a mass audience (John Denver's songs being entirely consistent with this vision). Its plot - young, beautiful mother, dying from a malignant tumour - for the most part places the film firmly in the realms of Hollywood's Terminal Casebook. However, Carol Sobieski's script manages to hint at deeper things. Kate, the heroine (Raines), appears sympathetic and misguided in turns, and the tensions that her illness cause are treated with some integrity. Equally, the sustained and irritating zaniness of her husband (De Young) in the face of something he can't and doesn't want to comprehend is absolutely right. She is left recording her thoughts into a tape recorder while he has an affair with the neighbour. That she dies a human being, rather than in the angelic limbo usually reserved for such occasions, remains some sort of achievement. But the valid confusions of the script become dissipated by the direction. Thus, in the context of Sargent's pedestrian direction, Kate's 'Life was just so incredibly beautiful' takes on an unintended irony.

Author: CPe 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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donna said...

Posted on Apr 06 2009 15:45 saw it in the 70s never forgot it where can i buy it anyone know?

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lizz said...

Posted on Jan 16 2009 20:34 The first movie I ever seen. I never forget it. I to would like to know where I can get it.

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DON said...

Posted on Dec 02 2008 22:59 i too would like to know where i can buy 1973 sunshine in New ZEALAND OR AUSTRALIA

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beverly said...

Posted on Jul 30 2008 06:54 hey found movie release 4 19.99 plus at jdvds1994.com w/seq

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beverly said...

Posted on Jul 30 2008 06:32 named daughter after this film looking to buy movie as a present 4 her can anyone help?

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Sebastian said...

Posted on May 05 2008 06:06 Great moving movie and heart warming I remember seeing it back in the 70's, never seen it again on TV, can some please email me if Sunshine 1 & 2 are available on DVD, Thanks.

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