
Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four women (Claire Bloom, Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters and Glynis Johns) with four separate sexual hangups, ranging from frigidity to nymphomania. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. plays a researcher who becomes entangled with Fonda, the young woman suffering from emotional frigidity.... (Full plot summary below)
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Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four women (Claire Bloom, Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters and Glynis Johns) with four separate sexual hangups, ranging from frigidity to nymphomania. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. plays a researcher who becomes entangled with Fonda, the young woman suffering from emotional frigidity.
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| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyCukor's trashy melodrama about the sex lives of L.A. housewives suffered due to censorship, but it's worth seeing for Claire Bloom's performance as a nymphomaniac; Shelley Winters and Jane Fonda co-star |
| User ReviewDaryl CFirst of all, it's 1962, not 2001 (though the sci-fi mix-up is typical of this film). Totally unavailable (because it was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck but released through Warner Brothers, but exactly who owns the copyright is a cause of debate), it used to play a lot on TV in the 1970s and 1980s. But i remember going to see this during its first run (it was one of those movies that year - another was Kubrick's LOLITA - which just made me feel so grownup for going to see it at the age of 9). This is the kind of movie which is easy to dismiss as trash, and well it should be... and yet, it is also a film which is touched with extremes of lasciviousness (the lighting on so many of the young male costars seems to accentuate their crotches or their asses) and brilliance. That's right, brilliance, because some of the performers, in particular, Claire Bloom, Glynis Johns and Jane Fonda, give incredible depth, wit, and insight into their parts. Bloom, in particular, was never more incisive, more insistently sexual, more piercingly poignant. The way her movements get progressively looser as the character loses her control, her dignity, and then all her self-respect is just so precisely done, and it takes her character into the realm of the tragic. Claire Bloom was always a great actress; this role, even in the circumstances of a messed-up piece of commercial exploitation, is proof. |
| User ReviewAudrey SCorny and dated drama about women participating in a Kinsey-like study. I'm sure it was pretty edgy stuff in 1962, but now feels more like a tepid Lifetime Channel movie. However, the melodrama gets a classed up by a stellar case (Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom, Cloris Leachman, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and an uncredited Lesley Ann Warren) and by George Cukor directing and Darryl F. Zanuck producing. |
| User ReviewAshley HThe Chapman Report is a disappointing film. It is about four women who allow themselves to become part of a scientific survey that examines their sex lives. Shelly Winters and Jane Fonda give horrible performances. The screenplay is badly written. George Cukor did a terrible job directing this movie. I was not impressed with this motion picture. |
| User ReviewJim MOnly reason for one star is Claire Bloom's performance. Over the top sudsy melodrama. Can't believe this was directed by Cukor and such a good cast. Sorry excuse for a script. It's release is 1962 NOT 52! Duh, Jane Fonda would have been a child! |