
Gordon meets Florence and they share an interest in tennis. But Florence has a supremely-ambitious mother (she barely knows her own husband exists) who intends to push her ahead. Florence's tennis career rapidly advances, thanks to Mother's manipulation and a promotion-minded coach; building toward the inevitable conflict between the fulfillment of Mother's dreams...and daughter's.... (Full plot summary below)
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Gordon meets Florence and they share an interest in tennis. But Florence has a supremely-ambitious mother (she barely knows her own husband exists) who intends to push her ahead. Florence's tennis career rapidly advances, thanks to Mother's manipulation and a promotion-minded coach; building toward the inevitable conflict between the fulfillment of Mother's dreams...and daughter's.
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| New YorkerRichard BrodyThe drama spotlights the price that love, in a time of unquestioned inequities, exacts. |
| User Reviewjay nA tight, trim piece of filmmaking from Ida Lupino, who stages one of the coolest mounted-on-the-back-of-the-car shots I've ever seen in a flick from the 50's. |