Peter and Tillie

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Movie
German title Peter and Tillie
Original title Pete 'n' Tillie
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1972
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Martin Ritt
script Peter De Vries
Julius J. Epstein
production Julius J. Epstein
music John Williams
camera John A. Alonzo
cut Frank Bracht
occupation

Peter and Tillie ( Pete 'n' Tillie ) is an American dramedy film directed by Martin Ritt from 1972 and starring Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett .

Screenwriter Julius J. Epstein received an Oscar nomination for his adaptation of Peter De Vries ' novella Witch's Milk from 1968. Epstein later adapted another work by De Vries for the film Ruben, Ruben .

action

Tillie Schlaine meets Peter Seltzer at the party of her friends Gertrude and Burt.

Peter is a bachelor with strange habits. He does motivation research for a company in San Francisco; in his spare time he plays ragtime on the piano and plays bad word games. He shows up occasionally at Tillie's, but doesn't answer for days and then comes back to her at the door. When they have sex, it turns out that Tillie was a virgin.

Peter apparently continues to meet other women, but when he is promoted, Tillie tells the time to get married. Eventually they get married, buy a house, and have a baby. However, Peter continues to have affairs and Tillie even has to turn down one of his lunchtime affairs.

Finally her nine-year-old son Robbie falls seriously ill. When he dies, Peter and Tillie's marriage falls apart and Tillie's faith is shaken.

Tillie renounces sex and Peter drinks and takes his own apartment. Tillie's depression is tempered by her friendship with the gay Jimmy, who would even be willing to marry Tillie so that she would be happy. When they try to get Gertrude to reveal her real age, a public fight breaks out between the women.

Tillie ends up in a sanitarium. After Peter hid for years that the death of her son would affect him too, one day he visits Tillie. When she sees that he is mourning too, they make up again.

reception

The film grossed $ 14,999,969 at the box office and grossed $ 8.7 million through distribution in North America in 1973.

Awards

The film received two Academy Award nominations: Julius J. Epstein for Best Adapted Screenplay and Geraldine Page for Best Supporting Actress .

Walter Matthau received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor - Comedy or Musical and won the 1973 British Academy Film Award for Best Actor for the films Peter and Tillie and The Great Coup .

Carol Burnett was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress - Comedy or Musical .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pete 'n' Tillie . In: Turner Classic Movies . Turner Broadcasting System ( WarnerMedia ). Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  2. ^ Movies Released in 1972 . The Numbers. Retrieved May 19, 2012.
  3. ^ "Big Rental Films of 1973", Variety , Jan. 9, 1974, p. 19.

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