Terms and Conditions Apply: The Cinema of Robert Ellis Miller ()
Overview
Robert Ellis Miller has been dismissed as a director of "fluff" movies, but there are a few very specific elements that connect all this films. Any Wednesday (1966), Sweet November (1968), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968), The Buttercup Chain (1970), The Girl from Petrovka (1974), and others suggest a world in which love is structured not around passion but contracts. The stories are built around sealed-off social environments. A small group, or individuals, enforce rules, rituals, and hierarchies that slowly turn malignant or unworkable.
Cast
Daniel Kremer
Narrator
Robert Ellis Miller
Himself
Sandy Dennis
Anthony Newley
Alan Arkin
Sondra Locke
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