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Feliz Aniversário, Wanda June

Título original: Happy Birthday, Wanda June
  • 1971
  • R
  • 1 h 45 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
6,1/10
387
SUA AVALIAÇÃO
Feliz Aniversário, Wanda June (1971)
ComédiaDrama

Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaA family reacts to the return of the patriarch who abandoned them seven years earlier.A family reacts to the return of the patriarch who abandoned them seven years earlier.A family reacts to the return of the patriarch who abandoned them seven years earlier.

  • Direção
    • Mark Robson
  • Roteirista
    • Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  • Artistas
    • Rod Steiger
    • Susannah York
    • George Grizzard
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    6,1/10
    387
    SUA AVALIAÇÃO
    • Direção
      • Mark Robson
    • Roteirista
      • Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    • Artistas
      • Rod Steiger
      • Susannah York
      • George Grizzard
    • 22Avaliações de usuários
    • 11Avaliações da crítica
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
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    Rod Steiger
    Rod Steiger
    • Harold Ryan
    Susannah York
    Susannah York
    • Penelope Ryan
    George Grizzard
    George Grizzard
    • Dr. Norbert Woodley
    Don Murray
    Don Murray
    • Herb Shuttle
    William Hickey
    William Hickey
    • Looseleaf Harper
    Steven Paul
    • Paul Ryan
    Pamelyn Ferdin
    Pamelyn Ferdin
    • Wanda June
    Pamela Saunders
    • Mildred Ryan
    Louis Turenne
    Louis Turenne
    • Major von Koningswald
    C.C. Whitney
    • Mrs. Kestenbaum
    Lester Goldsmith
    • Mr. Kestenbaum
    • (as Lester M. Goldsmith)
    • Direção
      • Mark Robson
    • Roteirista
      • Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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    Avaliações de usuários22

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    8roger-212

    Lost and wonderful Vonnegut film/play worth reviving

    "Happy Birthday Wanda June" is out there...somewhere, because a print has just surfaced in San Francisco for a small festival showing in August of 2007. I first read about this film way back in Cinefantastique and of course it hasn't surfaced since, not on VHS or DVD.

    Written probably as Vonnegut was really hitting his stride, around the time of "Slaughterhouse 5" it explores the meaning of humanity on this planet, the madness of men (the gender) and the blindness of following what we thing is valuable but isn't.

    Smaller in scale than "S5" or "Sirens of Titans" this originally was a play and the film shows this provenance. It's practically one-set, and the acting is rather broad. Mark Robson seems to be making sure everyone pitches it out to the back rows. The child and the 2 male friends of Susannah York's character are particularly grating. But Rod Steiger, whose role is a bombastic man's man (somehow reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway or John Huston), manages to play his loud and obnoxious role with a graceful (if unhumble) bravado. He is perhaps more in on the joke - that he is a fool and a dinosaur embracing out-of-date ideas - than he initially proclaims.

    The flashes to Heaven, mentioned in previous posts, makes this vintage absurdist Vonnegut, with the underlying message that everyone goes to Heaven, so murdering someone is actually not a bad thing - you're doing them a favor. It makes the complains down in the Manhattan apartment about whether they should kill animals, be "savage" or civilized, rather moot in retrospect.

    An important work that deserves reviving. It's dated and a bit obvious in its symbolism (the violin hanging like a corpse above the fireplace) but beats "Visit to a Small Planet" anytime. And William Hickey is great as Steiger's sidekick who also returns after 8 years.

    Interesting side note when Steiger reveals he was drugged on "blue soup" for 7 1/2 of the 8 years. Did he actually see what life without the "action, the killing" might be like...and recoil in horror? And the last shot - not what you would expect, also raises an ironic eyebrow that will keep this film in your mind for days.
    ubercommando

    The Man Who Dropped The Bomb on Nagasaki

    I'll be the third person to comment on this movie; seems like like an exclusive club. Anyway, this is a very strange movie; Vonnegut does black comedy and touches on ideas he put in "Slaughterhouse Five". I saw this movie about 20 years ago, late at night on television, and it says a lot that although it's never going to be in my top 50 list, every so often I recall it and smile. Steiger is an egotistical, Iron John type adventurer and explorer who abandoned his wife to go off exploring with his friend, played by William Hickey (who was the man who dropped the atom bomb on Nagasaki, not Hiroshima, as the previous person said) and was missing, presumed dead for 7 years. Steiger thinks he can just waltz back into everyone's lives again and they'll all come running to him, but the reality is very different. Interspersed with this are cut aways to a little girl in Heaven called Wanda June who never got her big birthday party while she was living. Memory has dulled why her character and story is significant. One of the funniest scenes is where Steiger and Hickey enter their favourite bar after years away and the bartender yells out "Hey! This is the guy that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki!": A Japanese businessman looks on with contempt and backs away but a bearded hippy says "wow, I always wanted to meet you, man!"
    vlvetmorning98

    Hilarious and Surreal

    Based on Kurt Vonnegut's off-Broadway play, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WANDA JUNE,

    is essentially about Susannah York's character Penelope Ryan and the

    men that dominate her life, including a phenomenal Rod Steiger as ultra-

    macho big game hunter Harold. The story also occasionally jumps to

    heaven (yes, really), where Wanda June, the victim of a drunk driving

    incident, plays shuffleboard for all eternity. This excellent film has

    sadly never been available on video or DVD. I've only seen it on a

    bootleg DVD made from a TBS broadcast in the late 80's (with some of

    the language censored).
    karmacoupe

    The Jungle Blunderbuss vs. The City Violinist

    I can't believe only one other person has commented on this movie! I guess it must be virtually pulled from circulation. I haven't seen it for years, but i've always remembered it and have been looking for it ever since one chance viewing on late night TV.

    I just thought it was brilliant but have subsequently learned that critics thought it was horrible. oh well.

    it felt like a drama by a great playwright. primal man vs. refined culture. outdoorsman vs. city folk. men vs. women.

    and it's played to the hilt by Steiger and William Hickey. Hickey gives one of those most wonderful, funny, quirky, memorable performances i've ever seen in a film. and Steiger very effectively makes you hate him, playing this full-of-himself a*shole to the hilt -- but who can also appeal to any burgeoning Thoreauvian, or maybe even xtreme sports enthusiast.

    there are some very funny scenes involving a violin that obviously symbolizes refined culture. There's almost something of a Simpsons in this -- an adult comedic violent film version of Homer vs. Lisa.

    there's gotta be some reason this has been pulled from circulation cuz it's just too good and weird to not make more frequent appearances on the second-string movie channels. if you ever get a chance to see it, i say, email me and lemmi know when it's on! and don't miss it.

    William Hickey: Thanks for being here!
    Michael9137

    Irony,Madness and Desperation

    The first time I've watched this remarkable movie, was on commercial TV..I was sincerely amazed with this exquisite blend of irony,madness and desperation that was a trademark of Mr.Vonegut's works.But, there was something really new coming on that flick...the urges of a mankind behind those solid characters, Steiger and Hickey, this last one the bomber that wasted Hiroshima, and his Master, a frontiersman Steiger,both back from a disastrous expedition to Africa, that lasted years...Their families, in the face of those presumed deceased...What about an effervescent and mutating world of the early 70's?They should portrait the Vietnam fighters, being cursed for the flower power generation...Blended with superb interpretations from all the cast, with poisonous 'sensa huma'and political uncorrectioness all over the place.Those were the days, dude. A really must see...

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    • Curiosidades
      The original Broadway production of "Happy Birthday, Wanda June" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. opened at the Edison Theater on December 22, 1970, ran for 96 performances and closed on March 14, 1971.
    • Citações

      Penelope Ryan: Doctor Woodley, I would like you to meet Harold, my husband. Harold, I would like you to meet Doctor Woodley, my fiancé. Good night, dear.

      [kisses Harold]

      Penelope Ryan: Good night, dear.

      [kisses Dr. Woodley]

      Penelope Ryan: . Stay or go; talk or sulk; laugh or cry--as you wish. Do whatever seems called for. My mind is gone. Good night.

      [she closes and locks door]

    • Conexões
      Referenced in Mystery Science Theater 3000: 12 to the Moon (1994)

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      • 9 de dezembro de 1971 (Estados Unidos da América)
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