Watch I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (1977) Free Online

Release Date: 1977

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

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

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a 1977 film based on the Joanne Greenberg novel of the same name. The film was directed by Anthony Page and follows a girl who is ill with cancer and schizophrenia. A doctor is asked to help her out of her state. 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... MORE

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a 1977 film based on the Joanne Greenberg novel of the same name. The film was directed by Anthony Page and follows a girl who is ill with cancer and schizophrenia. A doctor is asked to help her out of her state. 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 LESS