Women And Men: Stories of Seduction
– This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the..
This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes. In "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt," salesman Gerry seduces train traveler Viki. Then, in "Dusk Before Fireworks," a night of romance between Hobie and Kit goes bad when the phone keeps ringing. Finally, in "Hills Like White Elephants," Robert discovers Hadley is pregnant.
14 Dec 1991
English
Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.
Frederic Raphael, Tony Richardson, Ken Russell
Valerie Curtin, Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne, Ernest Hemingway (story "Hills Like White Elephants"), Mary McCarthy (story "The Man In The Brooks Brothers Suit"), Dorothy Parker (story "Dusk Before Fireworks"), Frederic Raphael (segment)
Beau Bridges, Felipe García Vélez, Melanie Griffith, Dominic Hawksley
Three short stories come to the screen, each focused on a man and a woman. The first is set in the 1940s, the other two in the 1920s. In "The Man in a Brooks Brothers Suit," a businessman of about 40 plies a younger Leftist women with liquor aboard a train. They spend the night together, and he decides he's in love with her. She plays along. In "Dusk Before Fireworks," Kit, a youthful flapper, arrives at Hoby's classy flat intent on an evening of passion. A constantly ringing telephone interrupts each embrace. In "Hills Like White Elephants," a couple traveling in Spain discuss her pregnancy: he wants things to stay as they are, she sees that notion as a fiction.
1 win & 2 nominations.
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