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Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern, Bernice gives her much more than she bargained for. In 1976, Joan Micklin Silver directed a TV production created for the PBS series The American Short Story. [more inside]
posted by bunderful on Mar 21, 2025 - 6 comments

The young Harold (Bud Cort) lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude (Ruth Gordon) who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 10, 2023 - 8 comments

[TRAILER] Charity Hope Valentine (Shirley MacLaine) always tries to look on the bright side of life, despite working in a rundown dance hall and contending with a seemingly endless run of bad dates. Determined to find love, Charity falls for suave actor Vittorio Vidal (Ricardo Montalban), but their romance is all too brief. However, when Charity finds herself stuck in an elevator with the reserved Oscar Lindquist (John McMartin), it turns out that she may have finally met her match. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 1, 2022 - 4 comments

An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman. [more inside]
posted by hanov3r on May 3, 2022 - 4 comments