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Courtship (1987)Young Elizabeth is courted by Horace, but the deeply conservative parents disapprove of the relationship. Director:Howard Cummings |
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Title: Courtship (1987)
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William Converse-Roberts | ... | |
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Horton Foote Jr. | ... |
Steve Tyler
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Daisy Foote | ... |
Allie
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Hallie Foote | ... | |
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Michael Higgins | ... |
Mr. Vaughn
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Bobby Pate
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Jacqueline Lucid | ... |
Dora
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Marietta Marich | ... |
Aunt Sarah
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Rochelle Oliver | ... |
Mrs. Vaughn
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Laura Vaughn
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Aunt Charity
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Jane Welch | ... |
Aunt Lucy
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Young Elizabeth is courted by Horace, but the deeply conservative parents disapprove of the relationship.
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Zaloty See more »Filming Locations:
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In 1915 Harrison, Texas, an as-yet-unkissed piano teacher in her twenties is stymied from finding romance by her snobbish, suffocating parents whom she still lives with. Screenwriter Horton Foote adapted his one-act play, originally part of his nine-play saga "The Orphans' Home Cycle", and apparently had a hand in the casting as well (Horton Foote Jr. plays Steve, Daisy Foote is Allie, and the leading role is played by Hallie Foote). Obviously this was a labor of love, but nothing quite looks right or sounds right here. Foote has a definite ear for small town gossip, rife with religious and class prejudice, but his characters are merely sounding-boards, not people. Did he mean the parents to come across as such ignorant bullies--and if so, why? Do they want their eldest daughter to be an old maid piano teacher, untouched forever? The performers are uneven, their accents are over-emphatic, and the director has no idea where to place the camera, making this one clumsy "Courtship". * from ****