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Glass Houses

  • 19721972
  • RR
  • 1h 43m
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5.0/10
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Glass Houses (1972)
  • Drama
  • Romance
Teenage Kim is in love with her father, Victor, a middle class L.A. businessman who's sleeping with her peer, Jean, while Victor's wife is sleeping with a local novelist. Kim seduces Victor'... Read allTeenage Kim is in love with her father, Victor, a middle class L.A. businessman who's sleeping with her peer, Jean, while Victor's wife is sleeping with a local novelist. Kim seduces Victor's business partner, Ted, to get to Victor.Teenage Kim is in love with her father, Victor, a middle class L.A. businessman who's sleeping with her peer, Jean, while Victor's wife is sleeping with a local novelist. Kim seduces Victor's business partner, Ted, to get to Victor.
IMDb RATING
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32
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  • Director
    • Alexander Singer
  • Writers
    • Alexander Singer
    • Judith Singer
  • Stars
    • Bernard Barrow
    • Deirdre Lenihan
    • Jennifer O'Neill
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  • Director
    • Alexander Singer
  • Writers
    • Alexander Singer
    • Judith Singer
  • Stars
    • Bernard Barrow
    • Deirdre Lenihan
    • Jennifer O'Neill
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    • 3User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    Eve McVeagh in Glass Houses (1972)
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    Bernard Barrow and Jennifer O'Neill in Glass Houses (1972)
    Bernard Barrow, Karin Lind, and Jennifer O'Neill in Glass Houses (1972)
    Rhoda Anderson, Gar Campbell, and Deirdre Lenihan in Glass Houses (1972)
    Rhoda Anderson, Gar Campbell, and Deirdre Lenihan in Glass Houses (1972)
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    Glass Houses (1972)
    Deirdre Lenihan in Glass Houses (1972)
    Deirdre Lenihan in Glass Houses (1972)
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    Bernard Barrow
    • Victoras Victor
    Deirdre Lenihan
    • Kimas Kim
    Jennifer O'Neill
    Jennifer O'Neill
    • Jeanas Jean
    Ann Summers
    • Adeleas Adele
    Phillip Pine
    Phillip Pine
    • Tedas Ted
    Clarke Gordon
    • Lesas Les
    Eve McVeagh
    Eve McVeagh
    • Gray-Haired Woman at Civic Meetingas Gray-Haired Woman at Civic Meeting
    Rhoda Anderson
    • Brunette Hitchhikeras Brunette Hitchhiker
    Alma Beltran
    Alma Beltran
    • Victor and Adele's Housemaidas Victor and Adele's Housemaid
    Gar Campbell
    • Ralphas Ralph
    Mary Carver
    Mary Carver
    • Franas Fran
    Al Checco
    Al Checco
    • Man Wearing Black Cravat at Civic Meetingas Man Wearing Black Cravat at Civic Meeting
    William Cort
    • Man Eating apple at civic meetingas Man Eating apple at civic meeting
    Jack Grinnage
    Jack Grinnage
    • Pillow-Punching Therapy Session Coordinatoras Pillow-Punching Therapy Session Coordinator
    Laurie Hagen
    • Kim's Partner in Group Therapy Sessionas Kim's Partner in Group Therapy Session
    T.J. Halligan
    • Male Chairperson of Civic Meetingas Male Chairperson of Civic Meeting
    • (as Tom J. Halligan)
    Maurice Hill
    • Emotional Man in Group Therapy Session with Tedas Emotional Man in Group Therapy Session with Ted
    • (as Maury Hill)
    Hollis Irving
    Hollis Irving
    • Gladysas Gladys
    • (as Holly Irving)
    • Director
      • Alexander Singer
    • Writers
      • Alexander Singer
      • Judith Singer
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    Storyline

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    The libidinous sexual shenanigans of a middle-class Californian family, and deftly explores themes such as marital discord, middle age, adultery, search for one's self, and incestuous desire. Victor is a bored, married businessman carrying on an illicit affair with his attractive, new age girlfriend Jean. His sexually-frustrated, vivacious wife Adele involves herself with community civic meetings to do 'something' for the community. Victor and Adele's nubile nineteen-year-old daughter Kim, has a secret attraction to her father of which she cannot let go. As she cannot have her father, she takes up with a man of the same age, her father's business associate Ted. At one of her civic meetings Adele bonds with her neighbor, pipe-smoking sex novelist Les, and has an affair with him, albeit with ambivalence. Events reach a head when Victor and Jean bump into Kim, and her older lover at a health/new age resort. The pairing of Kim and Ted causes a falling out of the two men, and for Victor to reassess his relationship to the spirited Jean. —Wiki
    • civic meeting
    • hairy chest
    • gymnasium
    • mistress
    • may december relationship
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    • Plot summary
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    • Taglines
      • Father...mistress...daughter...friend...wife...THE STORY OF THE SENSUOUS FAMILY!
    • Genres
      • Drama
      • Romance
    • Certificate
      • R
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Deirdre Lenihan's only film role; all her credits thereafter were in television.
    • Quotes

      Victor: [Victor and Adele discussing their daughter Kim] Listen is she on the pill or something?

      Victor's Wife: What kind of a thing is that to ask?

      Victor: Well I mean she's sleeping with that animal isn't she?

      Victor's Wife: She'd tell me... I'm her mother after all.

    • Crazy credits
      The entire credits for GLASS HOUSES are played over a scene close to the film's beginning where Deirdre Lenihan's character Kim is waiting for father Victor, played by Bernard Barrow, to return home from his latest tryst. There are no credits whatsoever at the film's end, a distinguishing feature of this movie compared to others, which often split the credits to the start and finish of the particular motion picture.
    • Alternate versions
      In an Australian catalog from the early 1970s for 16MM films released by Columbia Pictures, 'Glass Houses' has a running time of 90 minutes, which differs from the run time of 103 minutes generally noted for this movie.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace (2019)

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    Not so hot
    I haven't seen this movie since it appeared in theaters. I've never heard of its being on TV. But I feel compelled to make some comment about it for the guidance of others if it ever does show up in public. The story involves a kind of triangle, as I recall, involving an older man, a younger woman (O'Neill), and another young woman with whom the guy has some sort of avuncular relationship (Dierde Lenehan, who was being heard of at the time). O'Neill is beautiful and has some racy lines and a nice swim scene. She represents rejuvenation. Lenehan is less striking, and is jealous of the other woman. The story is uninvolving, both because the line is loosely constructed and the acting is poor. It's well photographed, but that's about it. There are a number of flashy directorial intrusions. I remember it -- to the extent that I do -- partly because of the final shot. It's a freeze frame of Lenehan's bare foot on a carpeted staircase. The film simply sits on this frame for a few seconds then slowly moves in on this bare foot, the image growing grainier and grainier. The first effective use of a final freeze that I am aware of is in Truffaut's "The Four Hundred Blows." A distraught young boy, having just done something despicable, runs away from his parents to a wintry beach. He races along the sand in circles, without direction, and the film freezes on a frame in which he is staring into the camera with an anguished expression. It's effective because it is the remorseful face of a budding criminal, an ambiguous image, staring at the audience as if they were members of a jury about to pass judgment on him. Dierdre Lenehan's foot is nothing more than Dierde Lenehan's foot. On the plus side this movie does have Jennifer O'Neill exclaiming about how many erections the older fellow managed. But it's not worth wading through the whole thing to hear those lines. Skip it.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • January 7, 1972 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Camdan Evler
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Magellan Pictures
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 43 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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