Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

R,

1961,

1h 30m,

Drama

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87%

15 Reviews

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87%

2,500+ Ratings

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87%

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15 Reviews

87%

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2,500+ Ratings

In a Nottingham factory, Arthur Seaton works in a mindless haze, but his weekends are even more muddled due to his love affairs and his alcohol problem. One of the women Arthur is involved with, Brenda, is married to his coworker, but pregnant with Arthur's child. Meanwhile, Arthur is also pursuing Doreen. Soon enough, he is found out by Brenda, who wants money or an abortion, and Arthur finds himself at a crossroads.

Peter John Dyer

Sight & Sound

Feb 10, 2020

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning holds one principally as the portrait of a dimly dawning conscience, a boy-into-man metamorphosis too consistently honest to permit false ironies or heroics. But it has other distinctions.

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Manny Farber

The New Leader

Sep 15, 2021

There is one mannerism, a somber, time-devouring stare which [Albert Finney] wedges into each seduction, that destroys the credible surface of his characterization. It gives the role an inexplicable theatricality.

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Dwight MacDonald

Esquire Magazine

Jul 12, 2019

The photography is good clear documentary, the acting is excellent (especially Albert Finney and Rachel Roberts), the novel is rendered faithfully, but the movie is static.

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MFB Critics

Monthly Film Bulletin

Jan 22, 2018

It is never tied to stage precedents; and, unlike them, it keeps entirely within its world, introducing no characters to tell its audience what to think but making its points through firm writing and close observation.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Jan 25, 2012

B+

Albert Finney's belligerent performance is simply smashing.

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Andrew L. Urban

Urban Cinefile

Jun 12, 2009

It's in black and white, or rather a grimy English factory grey, but Albert Finney is superbly colourful as Arthur, a defiant and raging young bull of a man, suffocating in a remorseless, working class purgatory

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George W

Mar 25, 2018

It's in black and white, or rather a grimy English factory grey, but Albert Finney is superbly colourful as Arthur, a defiant and raging young bull of a man, suffocating in a remorseless, working class purgatory.

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Finn S

Oct 22, 2013

A drama showing a rebel in industrial England trying to have a good time but struggling to be responsible. 1001 movies to see before you die.

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Karel Reisz

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Albert Finney

Arthur Seaton

Rachel Roberts

Brenda

Shirley Anne Field

Doreen

Hylda Baker

Aunt Ada

Norman Rossington

Bert

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Synopsis

In a Nottingham factory, Arthur Seaton works in a mindless haze, but his weekends are even more muddled due to his love affairs and his alcohol problem. One of the women Arthur is involved with, Brenda, is married to his coworker, but pregnant with Arthur's child. Meanwhile, Arthur is also pursuing Doreen. Soon enough, he is found out by Brenda, who wants money or an abortion, and Arthur finds himself at a crossroads.

Director: Karel Reisz
Producer: Tony Richardson
Screenwriter: Alan Sillitoe
Distributor: Continental Distributing Inc.
Production Co: Bryanston Films Ltd., Woodfall Film Productions
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 3, 1961, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 28, 2017
Runtime: 1h 30m
Sound Mix: Mono

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