Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams ★★ 1973 (PG)

Woodward and Balsam are a materially prosperous middle-aged couple with little but tedium in their lives—a tedium accurately replicated, in what feels like real life, in this slow, dull film. The two leads and Sidney—in her first screen role in 17 years—are all excellent, but the story of regret and present unhappiness wears the viewer down. 95m/ C VHS . Joanne Woodward, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Sidney, Dori Brenner, Ron Richards; D: Gilbert Cates; W: Stewart Stern. British Acad. ‘74: Actress (Woodward); Natl. Bd. of Review ‘73: Support. Actress (Sidney); N.Y. Film Critics ‘73: Actress (Woodward).

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