Cinema: Grandmothers Are People Too

Youth constitutes 56% of the movie audiences. But what about the other 44%? Isn't their money just as good as the kids'? Better, declare the makers of A Walk in the Spring Rain. And so they have produced a menopausal melodrama reminiscent of an old Ladies' Home Journal serial. All that is missing are three staples and a recipe for lemon chiffon pie.

Libby Meredith (Ingrid Bergman) is bored. Her professorial husband Roger (Fritz Weaver) is a pedant who sprinkles even casual conversation with chalk dust. On Roger's sabbatical, the Merediths flee New York for a Tennessee farm. But while Roger is...

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