Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child welfare people try to force Murray to become a conventional man (as the price they demand for allowing him to keep Nick), the nephew, who until now has gloried in his Uncle's iconoclastic approach to life, tries to play mediator. But when he succeeds, he is alarmed by the uncle's willingness to cave in to society in order to save the relationship.
A Thousand Clowns has generally received very positive reviews.
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A Thousand Clowns was released in 1965 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 61 reviews, giving A Thousand Clowns (1965) an average rating of 77%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 87%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 65%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with A Thousand Clowns than critics were.
With a score of 77%, A Thousand Clowns is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1965, which stands at 61%.
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