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A Safe Place

  • 19711971
  • GPGP
  • 1h 34m
IMDb RATING
5.0/10
1.2K
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A Safe Place (1971)
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A strange young woman lives in a fantasy world where she can never grow up.A strange young woman lives in a fantasy world where she can never grow up.A strange young woman lives in a fantasy world where she can never grow up.
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    • Henry Jaglom
    • Henry Jaglom
  • Stars
    • Tuesday Weld
    • Orson Welles
    • Jack Nicholson
    • Henry Jaglom
    • Henry Jaglom
  • Stars
    • Tuesday Weld
    • Orson Welles
    • Jack Nicholson
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 19User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews
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    A Safe Place
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    Orson Welles, Jack Nicholson, and Tuesday Weld in A Safe Place (1971)
    Tuesday Weld in A Safe Place (1971)
    Tuesday Weld in A Safe Place (1971)
    Tuesday Weld in A Safe Place (1971)
    Tuesday Weld in A Safe Place (1971)
    Jack Nicholson in A Safe Place (1971)
    Jack Nicholson and Tuesday Weld in A Safe Place (1971)
    Jack Nicholson in A Safe Place (1971)
    Jack Nicholson and Tuesday Weld in A Safe Place (1971)
    Jack Nicholson in A Safe Place (1971)
    Jack Nicholson in A Safe Place (1971)
    Tuesday Weld in A Safe Place (1971)

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    Tuesday Weld
    Tuesday Weld
    • Susan…
    Orson Welles
    Orson Welles
    • The Magician
    Jack Nicholson
    Jack Nicholson
    • Mitch
    Phil Proctor
    Phil Proctor
    • Fred
    • (as Philip Proctor)
    Gwen Welles
    Gwen Welles
    • Bari
    Dov Lawrence
    • Larry
    Fanny Birkenmier
    • The Maid
    Rhonda Alfaro
    • Little Girl in Rowboat
    Sylvia Zapp
    • Susan at Age 7
    Rachel Harlow
    • Noah's Friend
    • (as Richard Finnochio)
    Barbara Flood
    • Noah's Friend
    Roger Garrett
    • Noah's Friend
    Jordon Hahn
    • Noah's Friend
    Francesca Hilton
    • Noah's Friend
    Julie Robinson
    • Noah's Friend
    Jennifer Walker
    • Noah's Friend
    Sheila Oaks
    • Sister In Law
    Wendy Girard
    • Girl at the Party
    • (uncredited)
      • Henry Jaglom
      • Henry Jaglom
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    • Trivia
      Opinion about this film was so divided when it was shown at the 1971 New York Film Festival that the audience broke out into shouting matches which nearly led to a brawl.
    • Quotes

      Susan: OK. Now...

      Fred: What's this? What's this?

      Susan: This is my magic box. You've got to be very careful with it.

      Fred: What does it do?

      Susan: You put something in it that means something very special to you. And then you make a wish for something you really need to happen. When you need it to happen and not just when you're fooling around wanting something. And then you lock it and you don't open it until that something happens.

      Fred: Does it work?

      Susan: Well, of course it works... my magic box. Someone gave it to me.

    • Crazy credits
      As the song credits are given at the end, every song is given a vocalist credit except for Fred Astaire for "I'm Old-Fashioned". The song title simply passes without vocalist credit as the rest of the songs are given such a credit.
    • Connections
      Featured in Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983)
    • Soundtracks
      La Vie en Rose
      Music by Louiguy

      Lyrics by Édith Piaf

      Performed by Édith Piaf

    User reviews19

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    1/10
    A Safe Place Would Be Far Away From This Film
    So, let me get this straight - if I have a taste for Fellini, Antonioni and Godard I'll feel right at home with A Safe Place? Um, no. I love Fellini, right up through 8 1/2. I've enjoyed much of Antonioni. Godard - a mixed bag for me, but I like Breathless and Alphaville fine, and Band Of Outsiders, too. Mr. Jaglom is not in their company, at least for me, and A Safe Place is a pretentious mess from start to finish. No one loves Tuesday Weld more than I, and she's fine. Jack Nicholson, who came in for a day and improvised everything is embarrassing. Gwen Welles gives new meaning to self-indulgent, but then again she has the most self-indulgent filmmaker imaginable "directing" her.

    I have never met a Henry Jaglom film I liked - ever. And his "thing" that if you don't respond to his films then you don't understand women is, well, fatuous. I'm glad he considers himself such an enlightened and sensitive man, but I'm not buying nor are many of my women friends. It is the type of cinema that makes me want to throw up and not because I don't like experimental or interesting films, because I have and I do. As I sat there with drool running out of my mouth because I'd just invested what I thought was almost ninety minutes of my time, I paused the film to find out I was only at the forty-minute mark.

    However, one has to commend any filmmaker who keeps on doing it - he does it with his own funds (good to be wealthy) and as long as he keeps having girlfriends he'll keep making films because his entire oeuvre is based on his love life.
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    • whitesheik
    • May 6, 2011

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    • Release date
      • October 29, 1971 (United States)
      • United States
      • Criterion Collection
      • English
    • Also known as
    • Filming locations
      • Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • BBS Productions
      • Columbia Pictures
      • The Rainbow Film Company
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    Technical specs

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    • 1 hour 34 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Color
      • Mono

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