It was Beatty’s debut in the movies; it was Inge’s first work done specifically for the screen; and it was Kazan’s first picture that failed to satisfy.
SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS is not only a movie, it’s an experience that anyone that was once can understand and feel. The characters go through love, sexual arousing, separation, and pain not because of a villain, but because of life, and ultimately, because of themselves.
Splendor in the Grass (1961) (373) IMDb 7.8 123 min 1961 NR Subtitles and Closed Captions Warren Beatty, in an auspicious debut, and Natalie Wood are teens in love, torn apart by family, sexual and peer pressures.
Entertainment Weekly compiled a list of the 50 Best High college Movies in their September 15, 2006 issue. Descriptions were derived from the original source. Descriptions were derived from the original source.
At the end of the Roaring ’20s, Wood and Beatty are teens in love, torn apart by family, and sexual and peer pressures. At the beginning of the Great Depression, Wood is an emotionally broken woman who revisits her past while trying to rebuild her life. Oscar-winner Elia Kazan directed, and the screenplay by William Inge won an Oscar.
Teen film is a film genre targeted at teenagers and adults in which the plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers and adults, such as coming of age, first love, rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst, and alienation. Some of these films are targeted at adults as well as teenagers.
Some movies like Splendor in the Grass: Circle of Friends (1995), This Is My man (1998), Crazy/Beautiful (2001), The Turning Point (1977), The Man in the Moon (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Instead of movies about teenagers by adults, intent on exploiting the new market with melodrama like Splendor In The Grass or dumbass sex comedies like Porky’s, the teenagers of the fifties and
Teen Movies By Robin Raven Professional Dancer and Actress Teen movies do a stellar job of mirroring the gawky journeys of people in the throes of .
Sudden leap into suggestive, gothic Midwestern weirdness as 1920’s Kansas teens Wilma-Dean (Natalie Wood) and Bud (Warren Beatty) arrive at her house then have to dodge her mother, in Elia Kazan’s Splendor In The Grass , 1961, from William Inge’s screenplay.
