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Splendor in the Grass
Splendor in the Grass follows the unrequited and forbidden but superheated romance between working-class high schooler Natalie Wood and rich kid Warren Beatty. Together they learn the harsh lesson of love and life in the '20s and sadly go their separate ways.
21 February 1937, Van Nuys, California, USA
28 August 1938, Ocean City, New Jersey, USA
30 March 1937, Richmond, Virginia, USA
8 July 1932, Marion, North Carolina, USA
14 July 1944, New York City, New York, USA
24 April 1925, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
27 April 1937, Hastings, Nebraska, USA
22 February 1902, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
10 December 1934, New York City, New York, USA
11 January 1901, Brooklyn, New York, USA
19 July 1924, Miami, Florida, USA
2 September 1940, Chicago, Illinois, USA
January 23, 2003
Probably Wood's finest hour
November 01, 2007
Youth exploitation pictures were all the rage at the time, and while this is better than some in execution and intent, it's still exactly that.
January 01, 2000
Watchable but not great.
June 19, 2010
This romantic sudser is darker than those of its day, as it shockingly deals with matters Hollywood had previously kept under wraps.
March 02, 2009
Splendor in the Grass is a prestigious, top-of-the-line, sensitively-handled melodramatic literalization of the axiom "If you touch yourself too much, you'll go crazy."
January 31, 2007
One of Kazan's two or three mastrpieces, this powerful small-town film examines growing pains, respressed sexuality, and social hypocrisy, featuring Warren Beatty, in an astonishing screen debut, and Natalie Wood, at their very best.
February 09, 2006
A complicated film that never really successfully yokes together the themes of money-making and sexuality, it reveals both Kazan's operatic sensibility and his inability to follow an argument rigorously through.
January 01, 2000
Splendor in the Grass (1961) is another of director Elia Kazan's dramatic, hyperbolic films with daring and controversial content for its times - sexual repression