Watching The Children's Hour (from 1961) and very much disliking it.
Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine, two of my favorite people, how could this go wrong?... If only I didn't ask.
They made a girl's school and there is this really creepy student (this girl is going to give me nightmares, they like to do closeups of her eyes...) who is a compulsive liar (and there's a kleptomaniac). The liar hates the school and wants her grandma to un-enroll her, so she tells her grandmother that the head ladies are lesbian lovers.
Don't get too excited, boys. Even with super-creepy-girl, this premise could have been understanding and heartwarming, or even a premise for an okay comedy, but no.
Spoilers (because you should not watch this): They lose everything because all the parents take their kids out of school, Audrey who is planned to be married calls it off, Shirley's character realizes she does love Audrey that way so she commits suicide, and maybe there was a lesson of understanding or not lying or not trusting kids with creepy eyes, but I just see it as the feel-bad movie of the century.
Great cast, big fail.
Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine, two of my favorite people, how could this go wrong?... If only I didn't ask.
They made a girl's school and there is this really creepy student (this girl is going to give me nightmares, they like to do closeups of her eyes...) who is a compulsive liar (and there's a kleptomaniac). The liar hates the school and wants her grandma to un-enroll her, so she tells her grandmother that the head ladies are lesbian lovers.
Don't get too excited, boys. Even with super-creepy-girl, this premise could have been understanding and heartwarming, or even a premise for an okay comedy, but no.
Spoilers (because you should not watch this): They lose everything because all the parents take their kids out of school, Audrey who is planned to be married calls it off, Shirley's character realizes she does love Audrey that way so she commits suicide, and maybe there was a lesson of understanding or not lying or not trusting kids with creepy eyes, but I just see it as the feel-bad movie of the century.
Great cast, big fail.
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