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Release Date: 1968

Cast: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Terry Kiser, Izzy Singer, Violet Dunn, Nell Newman, Estelle Parsons, Joanne Woodward, Shawn Campbell, Donald Moffat, Kate Harrington, Franco Corsaro, Bernard Barrow ...MORE

Cast: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Terry Kiser, Izzy Singer, Violet Dunn, Nell Newman, Estelle Parsons, Joanne Woodward, Shawn Campbell, Donald Moffat, Kate Harrington, Franco Corsaro, Bernard Barrow, James Olson ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romance Film, Feminist Film

Rachel, Rachel is a 1968 American drama film produced and directed by Paul Newman. The screenplay by Stewart Stern is based on the 1966 novel A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence. Rachel Cameron (Joanne Woodward) is a shy 35-year-old spinster schoolteacher living with her widowed mother in an apartment above the funeral home once owned by her father in a small town in Connecticut. School is out for summer vacation and Rachel figures it will just be another lonely and boring summer for her. (In a way it's implied that she hates the summer as the school provides something of an escape from her... MORE

Rachel, Rachel is a 1968 American drama film produced and directed by Paul Newman. The screenplay by Stewart Stern is based on the 1966 novel A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence. Rachel Cameron (Joanne Woodward) is a shy 35-year-old spinster schoolteacher living with her widowed mother in an apartment above the funeral home once owned by her father in a small town in Connecticut. School is out for summer vacation and Rachel figures it will just be another lonely and boring summer for her. (In a way it's implied that she hates the summer as the school provides something of an escape from her demanding and sometimes controlling mother.) Fellow unmarried teacher and best friend Calla Mackie, a closeted lesbian, persuades her to attend a revival meeting, where one of the preachers encourages Rachel to express her feelings. Calla also is inspired to explore her emotions, but when she reveals her physical attraction to Rachel, she is kindly rebuffed by her friend. When Rachel's former high school classmate Nick Kazlik comes to town to visit his parents, she succumbs to his charms and has her first sexual experience. Mistaking lust for love, she begins to plan a future with Nick, who LESS