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Release Date: 1977

Cast: Ben Piazza, Martine Bartlett, Sylvia Sidney, Margo Ann Berdeshevsky, Susan Tyrrell, Darlene Craviotto, Bibi Andersson, Reni Santoni, Dennis Quaid, Kathleen Quinlan, Norman Alden, Lorraine Gary ...MORE

Cast: Ben Piazza, Martine Bartlett, Sylvia Sidney, Margo Ann Berdeshevsky, Susan Tyrrell, Darlene Craviotto, Bibi Andersson, Reni Santoni, Dennis Quaid, Kathleen Quinlan, Norman Alden, Lorraine Gary, Signe Hasso ...LESS

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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a 1977 film based on the Joanne Greenberg novel of the same name. In the wake of the success of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Roger Corman was able to get funding for a movie version of Rose Garden. Bibi Andersson played Dr. Fried, while Kathleen Quinlan played Deborah. For unknown reasons, all references to Judaism were removed, including the storyline of the vicious cruelty Deborah suffered from anti-Semitic peers, so that her childhood bout with urethral cancer becomes the sole reason for Deborah's "retreat from reality". In a interview,... MORE

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a 1977 film based on the Joanne Greenberg novel of the same name. In the wake of the success of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Roger Corman was able to get funding for a movie version of Rose Garden. Bibi Andersson played Dr. Fried, while Kathleen Quinlan played Deborah. For unknown reasons, all references to Judaism were removed, including the storyline of the vicious cruelty Deborah suffered from anti-Semitic peers, so that her childhood bout with urethral cancer becomes the sole reason for Deborah's "retreat from reality". In a interview, Greenberg stated that the references to Judaism were removed because the producers were "terrified." The author added that the characterizations of mental illness in the film "stank on ice." Deborah's name is changed from Blau (which means "blue" in German, and parallels the author's pseudonym "Green") to Blake. Another major theme of the book, Deborah's artistic talent which flourished in spite of her illness, was reduced to a scene in which she scribbles childishly on a drawing pad. The Kingdom Of Yr is portrayed on-screen, as are some of its gods, but never seen in its original ethereal beauty, only LESS