The Sterile Cuckoo

19691969
MM
1h 47min

The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)

Comedy Drama Romance

In this romantic comedy, an eccentric girl forces a reluctant college student into an affair. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards including Best Song "Come Saturday Morning.In this romantic comedy, an eccentric girl forces a reluctant college student into an affair. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards including Best Song "Come Saturday Morning.In this romantic comedy, an eccentric girl forces a reluctant college student into an affair. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards including Best Song "Come Saturday Morning.

Director
- Alan J. Pakula
Writers
- John Nichols(novel "The Sterile Cuckoo")
- Alvin Sargent(screenplay)
Stars

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Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 3 wins & 7 nominations total

Tim McIntire and Liza Minnelli in The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)

Liza Minnelli in The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)

Wendell Burton and Liza Minnelli in The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)

Wendell Burton and Liza Minnelli in The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)

Wendell Burton and Liza Minnelli in The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)

Wendell Burton and Liza Minnelli in The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)

"Sterile Cuckoo, The" Liza Minnelli. 1969/Paramount

"Sterile Cuckoo, The" Wendell Burton and Liza Minnelli. 1969/Paramount

"Sterile Cuckoo, The" Liza Minnelli, 1969.

"Sterile Cuckoo, The" Liza Minnelli, 1969.

"Sterile Cuckoo, The" Liza Minnelli, 1969.

"Sterile Cuckoo, The" Liza Minnelli. 1969.

Director
- Alan J. Pakula
Writers
- John Nichols(novel "The Sterile Cuckoo")
- Alvin Sargent(screenplay)
All cast & crew
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Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

6.1

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

Starting Over

6.4

Comes a Horseman

6.3

Comes a Horseman

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing

6.7

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing

Inside Daisy Clover

6.2

Inside Daisy Clover

Orphans

6.6

Dream Lover

4.8

Rollover

5.4

Klute

7.1

Goodbye, Columbus

6.5

Goodbye, Columbus

The Pumpkin Eater

7.2

The Pumpkin Eater

Melvin and Howard

6.8

Melvin and Howard

Two students from neighboring colleges in upstate New York are swept up in a tragic romantic interlude calling for a maturity of vision beyond their experience of capabilities. Pookie Adams, a kooky, lonely misfit with no family and no place to go, insists on calling all those who won't participate in her world "weirdos." She clings to Jerry, a quiet, studious fellow who has the ability to choose to live in Pookie's private little world or be accepted by the society that she rejects. Unwittingly, it is through their awkward relationship that Pookie actually prepares Jerry for the world of "weirdos" into which she neither fits nor wishes to fit. —alfiehitchie

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Taglines
- First love is beautiful hurt....if it happens to you once, you're lucky.
Genres
Certificate
- M
Parents guide
- Add content advisory

Trivia
After winning the part of Pookie Adams, Liza Minnelli had a copy of the script sent over to her mother, Judy Garland, who read it and thought the part of this troubled, friendless girl would be an unattractive role for her daughter. Minnelli says she became defensive and argued that Pookie was a great role for any actress, but that Garland was personally concerned Minnelli identified too closely with Pookie.

Goofs
When they are walking by the cows he's telling her about all the stuff he read in her letters and she's wearing a short skirt with a pink blouse. Then they show them from the back in a far away shot as they walking away from the cows and their clothing has changed to the ones they were wearing when they were flying the kite.

Quotes
'Pookie' Adams: [a little brassily, during her first tryst with Jerry] So, would you like to peel a tomato?
Jerry Payne: [confused] What?
'Pookie' Adams: [quieter, more seductively] Do you want to strip me?

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Babe: Pig in the City/Home Fries/Ringmaster/Very Bad Things/Savior (1998)

Soundtracks
Come Saturday Morning
Lyric Dory Previn Music Fred Karlin
Performed by The Sandpipers
A & M Records Recording Artists

Top review

Pain can be beautiful

I saw it in 1992 (well past puppy love age) and wrote in my diary:

A heavenly movie! What a visual and aural delight! The plot didn't matter much (love of shy college boy and girl). But then, no good movie puts plot above everything else. Good movies have great atmospheres. They are pleasing to the eye, as well as the ear. This one was blissfully free from cliches, melodrama, formulas, phony excitement. It was pure warmth, charm, prettiness, spontaneity. There were almost no close-ups. The scenery was breathtaking, the pacing calm and gentle. There were whispers! Whispering is so charming, so intimate. Liza Minelli was never better. This film gave me a great boost, making me feel connected with fellow humans.

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Release date
- October 22, 1969 (United States)
Country of origin
- United States
Language
- English
Also known as
- Sterilna kukavica
Filming locations
- Howell Furniture and Hardware/The Bank Block, 300 S. Euclid Ave., Ontario, California, USA
Production company
- Boardwalk Productions
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Gross US & Canada
- $13,982,357

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Runtime
- 1h 47min
Sound mix
- Mono
Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1

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