A young girl runs away from home and meets a grouchy older man who reluctantly takes her in. Eventually they develop a romantic and affectionate relationship.A young girl runs away from home and meets a grouchy older man who reluctantly takes her in. Eventually they develop a romantic and affectionate relationship.A young girl runs away from home and meets a grouchy older man who reluctantly takes her in. Eventually they develop a romantic and affectionate relationship.
- Awards
- 3 nominations
- Marcy
- (as Jamie Smith Jackson)
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- TriviaDanny Peary in his book "Guide for the Film Fanatic" (1987) states "not many people paid attention to the film upon release" while Richard Schickel in his book "Clint: A Retrospective" (2012) states that this movie in theaters "came and went virtually without notice". In a later interview, Eastwood would blame Universal for not marketing this film correctly, leading it to be a flop at the box office - even with its relatively low budget of only $750,000.
- GoofsWhen Frank takes Breezy to the Pacific Ocean so she can see it for the first time, it is early morning. When they arrive, the sun is clearly behind the ocean, casting shadows onto the beach, not away from it, so the scene was shot at sunset, not sunrise. In the next scene, Breezy is seen in bright sunlight with the sun high in the sky.
- Quotes
Frank Harmon: I'm sorry... is that better?
Breezy: I know I'm being a baby. So, don't say anything.
Frank Harmon: I wouldn't think of it.
Breezy: No lectures on maturity, either.
Frank Harmon: Not a word shall pass my lips. I'll let you in on a secret... nobody matures. They just grow tired.
Breezy: Y'know, Davy and Marcy have been living together for almost six months now. But, they don't have this... what we have. Davy tells her he loves her all the time, but... the words by themselves don't mean a hell of a lot. Marcy says that she loves him, but I think she has to say it because... then she doesn't realize how really alone she is.
Frank Harmon: Maybe sometimes it's better to be alone.
Breezy: Sure. Just like if you have something incurable, it's better to be dead.
[chuckles]
Amid the smoldering cultural wreckage of the recently-ended 1960s with its nagging remnants of the shrill `don't trust anyone over 30' crowd and the seemingly still-unbridgeable `generation gap,' the odd and quirky relationship between the youthful, Ophelia-like Edith Alice `Breezy' Breezerman (Lenz) and the middle-aged Frank Harmon (Holden) successfully and simultaneously reveals several very simple but still frequently-ignored truths; that shrewdness and insight are not necessarily the sole province of the `aged' and that a carefree, happy spontaneity isn't and shouldn't be automatically restricted to the `young.' And, more subtly, we also are quietly reminded that neither wisdom nor happiness can realistically exist isolated from one another and that the bitter memories of our own respective pasts can often tragically prevent us from getting what we truly need the most.
Like the Italian neo-realist director Sergio Leone under which Eastwood successfully toiled in the 1960s, the personalities of the film's characters are deliberately and slowly intensified but not over-presented or stereotyped, which adds to the power, insight and poignancy of this understated and well-produced film.
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- Also known as
- Begegnung am Vormittag
- Filming locations
- Fisherman's Village - 13755 Fiji Way, Marina Del Ray, California, USA(Frank and Breezy go to this shopping center with the lighthouse)
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Box office
- Budget
- $750,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $17,753
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1