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Master dramatist Sidney Lumet takes a gentler, more lighthearted approach to human nature in his gentle comedy GARBO TALKS. While the film centers on the main character's obsession with the great Greta Garbo, it is Anne Bancroft as the obsessed woman herself who is the luminous heart of the film. As Estelle Rolfe, a perpetually .. Read more

Starring	Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Catherine Hicks
Director	Sidney Lumet
Genres	Comedy

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- "...Sidney Lumet has accurately and affectionately rendered the N.Y. milieu of delis and Central Park....[The] cast of Broadway stage regulars has perfectly mastered New York diction..."
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  Bancroft steals the show in this dated comedy drama about a New York Jewish woman's dying wish to meet Garbo. Son goes on the trail (of which more could ... read more »
  
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  Perhaps if i had taken more time to read about this movie i wouldn't have been so surprised at how unbelievably bad it was. It was like watching a Tuesday ... read more »
  
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  Great heart warming comedy & Anne Bancroft gives a terrific performance, Carrie Fisher was a bit wasted though. Another top film from top director Sidney ... read more »
  
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  Great heart warming comedy & Anne Bancroft gives a terrific performance, Carrie Fisher was a bit wasted though. Another top film from top director Sidney ... read more »
  
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  Dated but sweet
  
  Bancroft steals the show in this dated comedy drama about a New York Jewish woman's dying wish to meet Garbo. Son goes on the trail (of which more could ... read more »
  
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  - Surrey
  - 03 Mar 2008 at 13:29
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  Should have known better...
  
  Perhaps if i had taken more time to read about this movie i wouldn't have been so surprised at how unbelievably bad it was. It was like watching a Tuesday ... read more »
  
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  Master dramatist Sidney Lumet takes a gentler, more lighthearted approach to human nature in his gentle comedy GARBO TALKS. While the film centers on the main character's obsession with the great Greta Garbo, it is Anne Bancroft as the obsessed woman herself who is the luminous heart of the film. ...