Review of Rachel, Rachel (1968) by Marilee A — 01 Mar 2012
A Family Affair making this Movie starring Joanne Woodward as Rachel, Paul Newman Directing, & their young Daughter Nell Potts playing Rachel as a Child growing up over a Mortuary.Rachel is a 35 year old Virgin School Teacher with issues from her childhood who lives with & cares for her Elderly Mother.
Rachel hates her boring non existence, so she goes to an Unorthodox Prayer Meeting that sends her into a tizzy, on the way home from there, her Best Friend Schoolteacher,Calla(Estelle Parsons) kisses her.
Seems like fear of her only prospects being Lesbian ones, she has a brief Sexual Fling with a guy she knew briefly from Childhood.The encounter with this Cad gave her romantic notions of a Baby & even Marriage.
Her pregnancy turns out not to be Pregnancy at all, but a Cyst.These Events give Rachel the Courage to get out from under her selfish Mother who is sucking the life out of her life, & start to live.
Slow, & Poignant, with a message that it's never to late to Change Your Life.Joanne Woodward as well as her Daughter, Nell Potts, showed wonderful depth as Rachel.
This review of Rachel, Rachel (1968) was written by Marilee A on 01 Mar 2012.
Rachel, Rachel has generally received positive reviews.
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