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The disillusioned middle-aged hero and the lonely spinster with whom he finds a meaning to his life are converted in the movie into a couple of silly teenagers, the stoic security agent and the conscientious sheriff are combined into a farcical villain - you get the picture?
The Enchanted Cottage delivers Dorothy McGuire as a "terrible ugly" spinster and Robert Young as a disfigured pilot.
Young spinster, who doesn't associate with women her own age and is eyed by gentleman from the retirement set, invites an apparently mute young man into her apartment on a rainy day.
Yuko Tanaka, best known for voicing the character Lady Eboshi in Princess Mononoke, plays a 50 year old spinster.
John Huston was seriously ill when he made his final achievement,and it's thoroughly his testament:uncompromising,difficult ,a thousand miles away from crazes and fashions,it will stand as the best "last film" you can ever dream of.A very austere screenplay,no action,no real hero,but a group of people coping with the vanity of life,the fleeting years and death.The party doesn't delude people for long.Admittedly,warmth and affection emanate from the songs and the meal,complete with turkey and pudding.But the passage of time has partly ruined Julia's voice,first crack in the mirror.Then the camera leaves the room where the guests are gathered and searches the old lady's bedroom.For sure,hers seems to have been a happy life,but it's a life inexorably coming to an end-A shot shows towards the end of the movie Julia on her future deathbed-.Maybe an unfulfilled life,because she remained a spinster,with no children to carry on .Only some poor things,yellowish photographs,bibelots and trinklets....
He cajoles his spinster receptionist (Bergman) into taking the role, leading to multiple comic disasters and surprising romantic turns.
A spinster living alone and living a boring life discovers a young man in a park just across the street from her townhouse.
Especially when you find out what this bland, boring, obsessive spinster is capable of.
SPOILER: The young lover, Jed, is kicked out by the spinster, Kate (Andie McDowell), because she wrongly believes that Jed is having an affair with one of her two catty girlfriends.
However, it is simply another story of a frustrated spinster with issues, who hires a paid escort (Dermot Mulroney) she reads about in a Time magazine article to travel to London for her sister's London wedding.
First of all, Hepburn is horribly miscast as a shy spinster - despite her brilliance as an actress, not even she can pull this off.
It's plot is fairly overdone--three young women on their way to a rock concert get in a car crash and end up stranded at the mansion of an eccentric old woman and her spinster daughter.
When a rich tycoon is killed in a plane crash, his spinster twin sister, Martha Craig (Madge Kennedy), doesn't believe he grabbed the controls in a suicide dive (even though self-snuff runs in the family) but his three beautiful daughters couldn't care less.
Yes, it is dated and full of wartime Britishness in accents and plot (based on the original play by Arnold Ridley of Dad's Army fame!) but full of wonderful character performances - including Kathleen Harrison as a dotty spinster.
The aptly named Miss Gravely, a homely spinster, sees Wiles drag the body and simply invites him for tea with romantic aspirations on her mind.
Daniels is exasperating while trying to shrink Moore's head, while Dzundza's fire is lighted by local spinster Mary Steenburgen, a closet chanteuse.
In the early 1930's, the marvelous character actress Edna May Oliver starred in a three-film series as spinster school teacher/murder detective Hildegarde Withers.
Molly Shannon effectively conveys the image of a lonely spinster lacking in people skills who insulates herself from the hurts of the human experience by replacing them with animals.
A lonely spinster blossoms after finding love, but nobly sacrifices it in the end.
The Remington family members all gather at their spinster aunts' mansion for a birthday celebration.
Frances Gray Patton wrote this beloved novel of a small-town spinster.
Inspector Dermot Craddock (EDWARD FOX) is in charge of the case and as he happens to be the nephew of the spinster detective Miss Marple (ANGELA LANSBURY), they both investigate the case together.
March and Moorehead (playing a repressed spinster aunt, much like she did in "The Magnificent Ambersons") were as good as movie actors get, but they're playing devices here, not flesh and blood.
Undernourished costume drama from writer Hugh Leonard and director John Irvin, with Natasha Richardson playing pretty war widow from 1920s England who comes to gossip-laden town in Ireland and gets on the wrong side of a surly spinster (Mia Farrow, looking wrung-out).
It takes her to a scenery where you might expect Hercule Poirot but not our favorite English spinster.
Just one more thing:Joan Hickson is THE definite Marple.She was absolutely perfect in the part,in the same way that David Suchet is perfect as Poirot.That said,I must point out that I actually enjoy Geraldine McEwan as Marple;she's not my favorite,she's not perfect,but she's a wonderful actress and thoroughly enjoyable to watch as the old spinster from St Mary Mead - and her performance is the only reason I'm giving this disaster area 3 stars,and not the 0 it deserves.
This three-sided love story involving a feminist spinster, her rather dim protégée and a Southern knucklehead (I'm simplifying wildly here) involved me more than it should have, yet it left a bad the taste in my mouth.
"You speak of him as if he were your mistress, Major Dunwoodie," observed the smiling spinster, glancing her eye at her niece, who sat pale and listening, in a corner of the room.
"In those he shall not be wanting," said the spinster, mildly.
The idea of that graceful spinster's cakes is no bad solace for twenty-four hours in the hospital."
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