Tall Story (1960)
- Directed by
- Joshua Logan
- Genre
- romantic comedy
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.7 of 10 from 15 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A college campus becomes a marriage marketplace in this comedy. A student tries to win a basketball star by playing hard to get while he navigates academic pressures and romantic misunderstandings.
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What happens
Tall Story is a 1960 American romantic comedy film made by Warner Bros. Pictures, directed by Joshua Logan, and starring Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda in her film debut. It is based on the 1957 novel The Homecoming Game by Howard Nemerov, which was the basis of a successful 1959 Broadway play titled Tall Story, by the writing team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The film was a considerable departure from Logan's previous two projects, the drama Sayonara, which won multiple Academy Awards, and the blockbuster South Pacific. It was Robert Redford's first film — he played a basketball player in an uncredited role (Redford had previously appeared as a replacement in the Broadway play in 1959). The film is a farcical social satire of American campus life, making fun of the way college life can become a marriage market for some students. Fonda portrays a character who is the complete opposite of the independent liberated woman she later personified. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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