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Most of the film is engagingly honest. There's a sad, funny scene in the motel room as Jerry mechanically undresses Pookie. There's a good scene in the fraternity house when Pookie gets drunk. A finely acted performance by Tim McIntire, as Jerry's roommate.
Jun 22, 2018 · Alan J. Pakula’s first movie, before Klute and The Parallax View and All the President’s Men, was a small-scale adaptation of a first novel, The Sterile Cuckoo by John Nichols, written when the author was only twenty-three and published in 1965. It’s a touching chronicle of a college romance that gets crushed under the weight of passing ...
Sep 12, 2009 · But in 1969, Pakula kicked off his own directorial career with The Sterile Cuckoo, a sensitively mounted character study that looks a whole lot more like the films he produced for Mulligan than the '70s thrillers that have mostly made his reputation in later years.
Uptight college freshman Jerry Payne (Wendell Burton) finds a carefree friend in zany Pookie (Liza Minnelli). After an awkward meeting on the bus, where they are headed to different colleges ...
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The Sterile Cuckoo (released in the UK as Pookie) is a 1969 American comedy-drama film by producer-director Alan J. Pakula that tells the story of an eccentric young couple whose relationship deepens despite their differences and inadequacies.
This film, along with the performances of the two principals, Minnelli and Burton, as well as the soundtrack, evoke a time in everyone's past, at some time or other. As two drifting college students, they have a chance meeting, become interested in each other, then gradually grow apart.
Sep 10, 2012 · The Sterile Cuckoo 1969, directed by Alan J Pakula | Film review. Film. Time Out says. Pakula's debut as a director, two years before making Klute, is one of those rare American films which...
