Splendor in the Grass

Splendor in the Grass
by Elia Kazan

Splendor in the Grass
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Actor: Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden, Natalie Wood, Pat Hingle, Warren Beatty
Director: Elia Kazan
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Boris Kaufman
Producer: Elia Kazan
Editor: Gene Milford
Producer: Charles H. Maguire
Producer: William Inge
Writer: William Inge
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-03-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video

DVD Reviews of Splendor in the Grass

DVD Review: "LOVE THIS MOVIE"!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

I've seen it so many times, and I never get tired of it! It's such a great film! Warren and Natalie look gorgeous! Actors today have "NOTHING" on these two..including the rest of the cast who were awesome!! Every time I see it I tear...it's so sad yet so beautiful!! It's also on my list of top movies!! This is one movie you can't miss!!

DVD Review: The first movie that ever made me cry myself to sleep
Summary: 5 Stars

The first time I watched this movie I was only 22 years old. I had only been married one month to a man I didn't want to be with. I still yearned for my first and only true love; the same man I am still in love with 26 years later. I remember crying myself to sleep that night as I related my own story to Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty in SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS. The similarities were astonishing. While this movie isn't for everyone, if you've ever been in love with the same man you know you can never have again, it is a "must see".

DVD Review: ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES
Summary: 5 Stars

Thankfully, I did not grow up in this era, and everything I have read and heard about it is obviously not entertaining. It is, therefore, even more amazing to me how entertaining this movie is for me. First of all, the chemistry between the beautiful Natalie Wood and the handsome Warren Beatty is off the charts. They are so young, especially her, but they are such masters of their craft even at their young ages. This movie has the depressing events of the times woven through the lives of the characters such as people jumping from windows after the stock market crashed.

First love, young oppressed love is the central theme. "Good girls" and "bad girls" and "boys will be boys" relay the double standard message of the times and of the movie. I can almost feel the pain of Bud and Deanie who are so much in love, but are not allowed to physically express it. Even though Bud wants Deanie and Deanie wants Bud, she has been raised to believe good girls don't, and he has been raised to believe there are two kinds of girls, and one is for fun and one is for marrying. While Bud, the school football star, wants to marry Deanie, his domineering father, (played to perfection by Pat Hingle) is living vicariously through him and insists the son fufill the father's dream of college football stardom first. Bud, who can ignore his teenage hormones no longer, succumbs to the girl passed around by all the boys in school. Losing Bud is more than Deanie can mentally handle, and she is sent to a mental facility.

First love is shown to be powerful but not meant to be. Even after Bud marries a girl he impregnates while in college and brings her home to live on the farm, and Deanie falls in love with a boy she meets in the facility, their love is still evident and strong. Although this is not a happily ever after story, and I wished until the very end that Bud and Deanie would reunite, it was not meant to be. It is still one of my favorite movies of all time. Whether or not you are a fan of Natalie Wood and/or Warren Beatty, this movie is worth your time. It is not hard to believe the gossip of their affair after seeing how they ignite on the screen.






DVD Review: I didn't know this was a silent film
Summary: 1 Stars

Well, there was NO sound on this DVD, so I didn't watch it. Into the garbage! Must have been a defective DVD.

DVD Review: great acting!
Summary: 5 Stars

Nataile Wood gives a great preformance in this movie, its a beauitful love story that how alotof meaning to it. i love this movie!

Deanie and Bud are high school sweethearts in thier 1920's little town, they love each other and Bud plans to marry Deanie. his father wants him to go to college first. Bud also wants their Relationship to go to the next leavel. Deanie though is not ready, so Bud finds a girl who is and brakes up with Deanie, after seeing the girl in class, Deanie can't take it...

Description of Splendor in the Grass

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/12/2005 Run time: 124 minutes Rating: Nr
Elia Kazan's pedal-to-the-metal approach to psychosexual melodrama paid off handsomely when he had layered material by Tennessee Williams or John Steinbeck to work with. The very raw material here is an original by hot-blooded playwright William Inge, about a pair of teenagers in the American Midwest in the 1920s whose lives are ruined by the repressive sexual climate of the period. The girl, played by Natalie Wood, is literally driven batty by her pent-up adolescent lust and ends up in the bin---which admittedly plays better than sounds, because the hunk she yearns for is the young and almost impossibly handsome Warren Beatty. This is a very lush and beautiful movie, but also a deeply silly one. It's grade-A American cheese, with a pinch of dime-store Freud on top.--David Chute

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