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Picnic
1955
Academy Award-winning drama about the impact of a handsome, virile and egotistic drifter on the lives of five women in a small Kansas town over Labour Day weekend. Read more
| Starring | William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg |
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| Director | Joshua Logan |
| Genres | Drama |
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Picnic
Academy Award-winning drama about the impact of a handsome, virile and egotistic drifter on the lives of five women in a small Kansas town over Labour Day weekend.
| Starring | William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson |
|---|---|
| Director | Joshua Logan |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 48 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, Spanish, German, Italian |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Dutch, Finnish, Romanian, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Hindi, Norwegian, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, English, Bulgarian, Swedish, Arabic, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 19 Jun 2006 Production year: 1955 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (2)
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An enormously tedious and overblown adaptation of William Inge's successful play about a drifter (Holden) who arrives... read more on Time Out
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Dazzling
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Most helpful member's review
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Nicely-shot but slow and uneventful
I wasn't really sure of the point of this film, apart from many gratuitous shots of William Holden half-naked, being admired by hordes of small-town wives and schoolmistresses... obviously that's no bad thing, as he is pretty hot, but it doesn't really make a film. Of the performances, the only real stand-outs are Rosalind Russell as the drunken old maid schoolteacher, and Susan Strasberg as an ugly duckling young daughter who wants to be thought as pretty as her elder sister, Kim Novak. It's well-made, and the cinematography is good, but I found myself drifting and losing concentration barely halfway through. I would recommend it only for ogling at William Holden's body, or seeing Rosalind Russell in full swing (many people apparently felt that, if she had let herself be put forward for the 1955 Supporting Actress Oscar, she would have beaten Jo Van Fleet and won it).
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Most recent members' review
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Dated
This seemed a very dated film. William Holden seemed totally ill at ease and too old for the role as did Kim Novak who was supposed to be 19 but looked 29.
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