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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 19, 2001
Budget $350,000
Running Time
1 hour, 31 minutes
Country USA
Studio United Artists
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy, Tear Jerker, Love
Tagline: It's the love story of an unsung hero!
Plot: Delbert Mann's big-screen remake of Paddy Chayefsky's 1953 teleplay, one of the most successful works of film's Golden Age, stars Ernest Borgnine as Bronx butcher, Marty Piletti. A good-natured man, if plain and overweight, the 34-year-old bachelor has become fed up with the dreariness of life with vacant, dead-end friends like Angie (Joe Mantell), omnipresent relatives like his cousin Tommy (Jerry Paris), and his nagging mother, Theresa (Esther Minciotti), with whom he shares a house. Often rejected by women, he feels that he is too unattractive to marry, and is far from eager to endure further humiliation. Still, Marty finds himself at a local dance hall, where he angrily refuses a man who offers him a few bucks to take home a blind date who has turned out to be a dog. The butcher seeks out the humiliated woman, Clara (Betsy Blair), who's in tears, and after he comforts her, they return to the dance. As Marty confesses similar experiences of his own to Clara, he realizes that he may have found the woman he's been looking for. Influenced by neo-realist masterpieces like UMBERTO D., Chayefsky's poignant, brilliantly observed kitchen-sink drama remains as persuasive as ever, as it explores the universal need to give and receive love.
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| Directed by |
Delbert Mann
That Touch of Mink, Separate Tables, All Quiet on the Western Front |
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| Music By |
Roy Webb
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Notorious, Out of the Past |
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