Love And Pain And The Whole Damn Thing

Name: Love And Pain And The Whole Damn Thing
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1973-04-01
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Rating: 7.00
Cast: Don Jaime de Mora y Aragón, Timothy Bottoms, Emiliano Redondo, Maggie Smith

– Filmed in 1971 under the title The Widower, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing finally reached t..

Type:

Movie

Rating:

7.00 / 10

Duration:

One Hour and 50 Minutes

Release Year:

1973

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973)

Filmed in 1971 under the title The Widower, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing finally reached the screen in 1973. Set in Spain, the film stars Timothy Bottoms as the aimless son of doctor Charles Baxter. While bicycling through the Spanish countryside, Charles makes the acquaintance of much-older Lila (Maggie Smith.) He falls in love with her, but she is resistant. Eventually touched by Charles' clumsy sincerity, Lila invites him to bed. The film then wanders into Love Story territory when Lila is afflicted by a terminal illness. Director Alan J. Pakula completed Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing during the "cooling off" period between his more famous Klute (1971) and The Parallax View (1974).

Producing Country:

USA

Filming Locations:

Spain

Genre:

Comedy, Drama

Release Date:

01 Apr 1973

Language:

English, Spanish

MPAA Content-Rating:

PG – Parental Guidance Suggested

Some material may not be suitable for children. Parents urged to give "parental guidance". May contain some material parents might not like for their young children.

Director:

Alan J. Pakula

Writer:

Alvin Sargent

Main Actors:

Maggie Smith, Timothy Bottoms, Don Jaime de Mora y Aragón, Emiliano Redondo

Plot:

American Walter Elbertson, in his late teens, is feeling lost within his family of overachievers. Thirty-something Englishwoman Lila Fisher is emotionally repressed. The two meet on their respective vacations in Spain, when, on the spur of the moment, Walter decides to ditch his overly regimented cycling tour group and join the bus tour group of which Lila is a part. They hardly speak to each other during the first few days, and when they do, they make each other nervous since each is scared of life. In spite of their fear of life or largely because of it, they enter into a friendship that blossoms into a romance, however rocky the road to that romance is. Out of circumstance, they abandon the bus tour and travel together through Spain on their own. Their relationship is put to the test of outside scrutiny when they meet and have an extended stay with a Spanish Duke.

Production:

Columbia Pictures

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database:

7.0/10

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