That Cold Day in the Park
That Cold Day in the Park

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Robert Altman's sadly neglected film that, along with his later "Images", fits into the unconventional psycho-thriller mold. A bizarre story with Sandy Dennis as a "spinster" who takes in a handsome and seemingly mute young man whose name is never revealed (Michael Burns). She imprisons The Boy (as he is identified in the credits) and supplies his every need, including a prostitute (Luana Anders), whom she brings home for his pleasure.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in That Cold Day in the Park:

Sandy Dennis
Michael Burns
Susanne Benton
David Garfield
Luana Anders
Edward Greenhalgh

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Robert Altman's sadly neglected film that, along with his later "Images", fits into the unconventional psycho-thriller mold. A bizarre story with Sandy Dennis as a "spinster" who takes in a handsome and seemingly mute young man whose name is never revealed (Michael Burns). She imprisons The Boy (as he is identified in the credits) and supplies his every need, including a prostitute (Luana Anders), whom she brings home for his pleasure.

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Little White Lies - 7/10 by Anton Bitelthe psychodrama that emerges shows a woman lost in the cracks between the staid bourgeois respectability of her mother's generation, and the new freedoms of the '60s.
The Skinny - 6/10 by Tom GrieveFull of the drifting long shots, slow zooms, and overlapping dialogue that would help to characterise Altman's later masterpieces.
Chicago Reader - 6/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumRobert Altman's inauspicious first theatrical feature -- recognizably his work, meandering zooms and all, but the material is somewhat pretentious and hackneyed.
Chicago Sun-Times - 4/10 by Roger EbertThe plot is too improbable to be taken seriously, and yet director Robert Altman apparently does take it seriously.
New York Times - 2/10 by Howard ThompsonIt's a cold, ugly and meandering business.
User Review - 10/10 by Michael NIf I were to describe this to you, you wouldn't believe me.
User Review - 10/10 by Alison JI must be the only person who loves this film. Sandy Dennis's monologue on the bed is so powerfully melancholy and fascinating.
User Review - 10/10 by Oaks BThematically like Images, but more like a play.
User Review - 8/10 by Jesse L(VHS) (First Viewing, 9th Altman film) At first I thought this was being set up as an unconventional romance story, until it hurtles itself into unexpected directions. Sandy Dennis gives a magnificent performance as an aging spinster too old to be attractive, and yet too young to be condemned to a life revolving around lawn bowling with her now-deceased mother's elderly friends. To counteract the emptiness of her life and the lonliness that's eating her away, she invites a teenage boy sitting in the rain in the park outside her house. She dotes on him, providing him with a hot bath, food, a place to sleep, even a new pair of clothes... and he never says a word, instead of peering at her with unblinking eyes. The silence of her new friend causes her to use him as a sounding board- at first opening up about her isolation, and quickly escalating until she is venting repressed sexual frustrations. And by this time her behavoir has begun to border on the obsessive... The last film Robert Altman made before hitting it big with [b]M*A*S*H[/b], and it lacks the mulitude of characters that would mark Altman's style from [b]M*A*S*H[/b] on. Dennis is forced to carry the entire film (as Michael Burns (the boy) essentially plays a cipher), and she does so magnificently. Even at this early date, Altman's direction is superbly restrained, and the screenplay by Gillian Freeman is tightly constructed. But as Pauline Kael writes in her review of the film, [b]That Cold Day in the Park[/b] has a "cold brilliance," but it is a film you can hardly wait end. By the time it reaches its haunting conclusion, the clausterphobia has become nearly unbearable. This is sadistic cinema at its best.
User Review - 8/10 by Dave SThe first half of the film is okay as set-up... the second half with the pay-off is amazing, with the ending being one of the most unexpected and disturbing in any film. I really responded to Dennis' cold atmosphere of character, even as Michael Burns was kind of a weak noodle. Not one of his best but a fine example of the start of the Altman 'style' (mostly with a few instances of overlapping dialog and social commentary themes.

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