Dear Heart

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Dear Heart

1964,

1h 54m,

Comedy

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Bubbly, middle-aged Evie Jackson has been single and alone for quite some time. When she attends a postmasters' convention at a New York City hotel, she meets rakish greeting card salesman Harry Mork and falls in love. Unfortunately, Harry wants to settle down and is set to marry Phyllis, a widow with a teenage son. Harry, however, soon realizes that Phyllis may not be as excited about the prospect of domestic life as he is.

Bosley Crowther

New York Times

May 9, 2005

[Dear Heart] is a stale, dull and humorless pretension at what its producers dare to describe as "gay, sophisticated comedy," and it makes almost scandalous misuse of the recognized talents of Geraldine Page.

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Feb 19, 2021

1.5/4

...a slow-moving drama that's been suffused with a whole host of ineffective, time-wasting attributes...

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Joan Didion

Vogue

Mar 16, 2020

It's a kind of middle-class Marty, a less melancholy Summertime, and, for an hour-and-a-half out of two, touching and pleasant to watch.

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Wendy Michener

Maclean's Magazine

Jun 27, 2019

Geraldine Page is clearly a most desirable woman, so they have given her the handicap of a poisonous personality, and most men in the audience may wonder why on earth Glenn Ford, of all people, wants to spend the rest of his life with her.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Jul 6, 2014

B-

A pleasant offbeat romantic comedy about middle-aged opposites making a love connection against all odds.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jul 3, 2005

2/5

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Draco R

Apr 21, 2018

Geraldine Page is so sweet and vulnerable in this. Ford is his reticent self. Complete opposites that attract. The Romantic interplay is a slow burn, but worth every minute . At first glance, this pairing seems very awkward. But, In time they become sensitive and enrapture the differences they share.

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Leia S

May 6, 2017

Geraldine Page will break your heart (if you have one to break) and I'm not kidding. Her subtle use of facial expression reveals her soul, and if one puts one's self in the frame of the late 50's and early 60's when "Realism" was the rage (such as Sir Laurence Olivier dipping his toes into this pool with "The Entertainer") and then adapting your own realism to the fact that films had to make money, then you can forgive the kind of brazenly mis-informed critiques of Bosley Crowther (who clearly had not a sentimental bone in his body) and you will watch Page's face register the internal gauge of the emotional state of the woman she plays. Caught in a half-fantasy half-dreadful reality, she has created a world within herself and the plot allows her to utilize her brilliance to make you fall for her. I did.

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Delbert Mann

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Glenn Ford

Harry Mork

Geraldine Page

Evie Jackson

Michael Anderson Jr.

Patrick

Barbara Nichols

June Loveland

Patricia Barry

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Bubbly, middle-aged Evie Jackson has been single and alone for quite some time. When she attends a postmasters' convention at a New York City hotel, she meets rakish greeting card salesman Harry Mork and falls in love. Unfortunately, Harry wants to settle down and is set to marry Phyllis, a widow with a teenage son. Harry, however, soon realizes that Phyllis may not be as excited about the prospect of domestic life as he is.

Director: Delbert Mann
Producer: Martin Manulis
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 2, 1964, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 12, 2017
Runtime: 1h 54m

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