Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco.
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| Melvyn Douglas | ... | David | |
| Lila Kedrova | ... | Eva | |
| Brooke Adams | ... | Jeannie | |
| Dolores Dorn | ... | Vivi | |
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Bob Elross | ... | Sammy |
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Jon Harris | ... | Mathew |
| Zalman King | ... | Paul | |
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Winifred Mann | ... | Hannah |
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Peter Owens | ... | Phil |
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Deborah Sussel | ... | Nancy |
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Lili Valenty | ... | Mrs. Mays |
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Nora Heflin | ... | Young Eva |
| Peter Coyote | ... | Young David | |
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Nora Bendich | ... | Lisa |
| Robert Behling | ... | Tim | |
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Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco.
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12 March 1982 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$1,500,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Sound Mix:
MonoAspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1
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Tillie Olsen's short story "Tell Me a Riddle" was awarded the O. Henry Award for best short story of 1961 after it was published in "New World Writing" Issue no. 16. See more »Connections
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Tell Me A Riddle is, in my estimation, one of if not the best film to have ever come out of Hollywood. As one of the irredeemable 'males' who are responsive only to brute force, jump cuts, and endless blow-ups, I would like to say 'not fair'. Any woman who cannot take her man to this film is clearly a woman who has selected as her partner a desensitized, muscle-headed oaf. The pitiable thing is that Hollywood is capable of producing masterpieces but, by force of the profit motive, seldom bothers and, when it does bother, as in the case of Tell Me A Riddle, the film is given minimum distribution and quickly disappears from the rental and retail shelves as well as the television movie channels.