Circle of Two
– The story of the impossible love between a schoolgirl and a 60-year old painter..
01 Nov 1981
English
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Jules Dassin
Marie-Terese Baird (novel), Thomas Hedley Jr.
Tatum O'Neal, Norma Dell'Agnese, Donann Cavin, Elan Ross Gibson
In Toronto, the fifteen year-old student and aspirant writer Sarah Norton meets the sixty year old painter Ashley St. Clair in a cafeteria while hiding from her stalker boy-friend Paul. Ashley hasn't painted for ten years. He agrees to read the poems that Sarah has written. They start seeing each other at his studio and Sarah falls in love with him. Ashley feels a platonic love for Sarah that becomes his muse and he decides to paint again. Paul spies Sarah in Ashley's studio, and misunderstands their relationship, he attacks her in a cornfield but she defends herself.