Splendor in the Grass (1961)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:10
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.4/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Set in rural Kansas, "Splendor in the Grass" tells the tragically romantic tale of teenagers Deanie and Bud who repress their desires because of their families' disapproval. Coming from radically... [More]
Starring: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Audrey Christie, Pat Hingle
Director: Elia Kazan
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Reviews for Splendor in the Grass
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Splendor in the Grass is a prestigious, top-of-the-line, sensitively-handled melodramatic literalization of the axiom "If you touch yourself too much, you'll go crazy." Full Review |
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Youth exploitation pictures were all the rage at the time, and while this is better than some in execution and intent, it's still exactly that. Full Review |
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One of Kazan's two or three mastrpieces, this powerful small-town film examines growing pains, respressed sexuality, and social hypocrisy, featuring Warren Beatty, in an astonishing screen debut, and Natalie Wood, at their very best. Full Review |
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A complicated film that never really successfully yokes together the themes of money-making and sexuality, it reveals both Kazan's operatic sensibility and his inability to follow an argument rigorously through. Full Review |
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Probably Wood's finest hour
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Watchable but not great. Full Review |
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Splendor in the Grass (1961) is another of director Elia Kazan's dramatic, hyperbolic films with daring and controversial content for its times - sexual repression Full Review |
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