Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #124477 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-12-21
• Format: NTSC

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Acclaimed director Sidney Lumet brings this marvelous adaptation of a Larry McMurtry novel to life. Blythe Danner and Susasn Sarandon star in this complex yet disarmingly fresh look at love. Spanning a period of forty years, "Lovin Molly" explores the unusual lifetime relationship of spirited, self-sufficient Molly Taylor (Blythe Danner) with two men, Gid Fry (Anthony Perkins) and Johnny McCloud (Beau Bridges). The two men are close friends and sincere rivals for Molly's love and affection. When Molly's father dies, she chooses to marry a third man, an enemy to both Gid and Johnny. Gid in turn marries Sarah (Susan Sarandon), a woman he does not love. But the ever irrepressible Molly continues her relationship with the two men over the eyras as her own set of rules strength those whose lives she touches.

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Customer Reviews

Amor Vincit Omnia
Sidney Lumet's "Lovin Molly" -- based on the story by Larry McMurtry --did not get good reviews, but it has been one of my favorite movies since the first time I saw it many years ago because of its simplicity and its honesty about love. The story flies in the face of the idea that marriage equals love, or that love equals marriage, or that a person is allowed only one romantic love. It recognizes that people can love each other for a lifetime while staying married to someone else because of a poor choice and a sense of responsibility. While the main focus of the story is on Molly's love for both Gid and Johnny, the two friends who are rivals for her love, it also treats the brotherly love between the two men. The story will not appeal to those with herd mentality, but it is a delightful movie for the Romantic freethinker. Blythe Danner is wonderful as Molly, and Beau Bridges and Tony Perkins are excellent in their roles as Johnny and Gid. Molly is a role model: a woman who is tough enough to make it on her own, but tender enough to love with all her heart.

An excellent, but different, love story
This is an excellent story about two men, best of friends, who love the same woman. She loves them both also but is unable to give herself fully to either. The movie follows their relationship over a lifetime.

I first saw this movie when it came out in the seventies. My Army roommate and I were both homesick Texans. We were struck by how accurately the movie caught the feel of the time, place and people. My elderly mother, who lived during the same eras as the movies, agreed.

Well acted, well photographed.