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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767881432
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767881435
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 16544
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 16, 1969
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Description:
Walter Matthau stars as Julian Winston, an easy-going bachelor dentist whose delicately balanced scheme crumbles under some unexpected circumstances. Winston is stringing along his dizzy blonde mistress, Toni (Goldie Hawn), by telling her he has a wife and children. When he learns that Toni has tried to commit suicide over him, however, he promises to marry her. Toni, refusing to be a homewrecker, insists on meeting Winston's wife. He convinces Stephanie (Bergman)--his starched, no-nonsense receptionist--to pose as his wife, and there are unforeseen twists and surprises for everyone.
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Rating:  - Saw it when it was new and couldn't figure out
how the heck Goldie got an academy award for it. Cornball back then, strained laughs, unfunny to the max. Ingrid Bergman looked really out of place in this movie, Walter Matthau was ok, but, nothing new. A little amusement for a rainy afternoon.
Rating: - Good but not great.
Cactus Flower is a cute and harmless film, but its dated and kinda corny now. Goldie Hawn is so adorable in this movie, no wonder she won best supporting actress, she's a hoot! Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman are great together, I just love them. Cactus Flower may have a few thorns but it is much-loved by fans so give this film a chance.
Rating: - ENJOYABLE VIEWING
WE ENJOYED THE MOVIE. LARRY HAD NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE AND HE KIND OF ENJOYED WHEREAS I HAVE SEEN IT BEFORE AND REALLY ENJOY IT. I LIKE WALTER MATTHAU AND I BELIEVE THAT WAS THE LAST PICTURE THAT INGRID BERGMAN MADE. IT'S A FUN MOVIE--CLEAN--NO SEX AND REALLY NO SWEARING.
Rating: - The Most Beautiful Flower
It may be sacrilegious to say, but CACTUS FLOWER is a much better picture than those that Billy Wilder was making at roughly the same time. We watched this, then THE FORTUNE COOKIE in rapid succession, and this one wins by a country mile. I bring in Wilder's name because in some quarters CACTUS FLOWER has been looked on as a flimsy Billy Wilder rip-off, due to the use of Walter Matthau and also to the scenarist I A L Diamond, who worked wonders on the original Broadway play script to CACTUS FLOWER and really makes it bloom on the screen. (Only in the cramped dentist set do you feel that you're watching a play transferred to the screen. Could that set have been any smaller, sometimes you watch Ingrid Bergman try to figure out what to do with her hips as she nears a desk or filing cabinet.) Diamond squeezed this one in during the long wilderness years for Wilder, between the ragged comeback that was THE FORTUNE COOKIE, and the 1970 megaflop that became THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. Those two shows seem absolutely dour next to the radiance of CACTUS FLOWER. Maybe Diamond felt freed up from his own impossible to live up to legacy, and he could just be really dumb.
Well, CACTUS FLOWER has a Wilder sort of mise-en-scene anyhow, as Walter Matthau plays a swinging dentist who pretends to be married in order to deceive his young girlfriend, Goldie Hawn. All the actors play this out as though it were perfectly normal for a 60 year old guy to be "dating" a 21 year old hippie girl. ... Read More
Rating: - Adorable 60's comedy...
This is a really sweet little film that is completely and thoroughly 60's. It stars Walter Matthau as a dentist who is dating Goldie Hawn, a young free spirit. He's told her that he's married so he won't have to marry her, but, when he decides he wants to marry her after all, he has to produce a wife. He turns to his faithful nurse, played by Ingrid Bergman (!), who has worked for him for ten years. Hawn's character feels pity for Bergman, and events escalate to the point that the dentist is using one of his patients to play the role of his "wife's" lover.
There's some really witty dialogue in here, and Goldie Hawn, in her first movie role, is irrepressibly adorable. Ingrid Bergman also gives a fabulous performance, once you get over the shock of seeing her in something that isn't Casablanca, looking almost matronly. (But, at age fifty-four, still beautiful.) Walter Matthau also gives a great performance as the sneaky but loveable dentist, and there are a couple of scenes in a dance club that are too great for words.
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