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Love with the Proper Stranger

1963 · 102 min

A tender, bittersweet romance that balances the weight of a crisis with warm humor and a hopeful, hard-won resolution.

Tagline: There is a moment - a long moment - when everything is risked with the proper stranger
Overview: Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz musician named Rocky Papasano. When Angie becomes pregnant, she tracks down Rocky hoping he'll pay for her abortion.

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
family
identity
class
parenthood
Places: big city
home
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	4
Realism	8
Romance	7
Tension	5
Darkness	5
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Written by: Arnold Schulman
Starring: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Herschel Bernardi, Anne Hegira, Harvey Lembeck, Mario Badolati, Penny Santon
Music: Elmer Bernstein
Cinematography: Milton Krasner
Runtime: 102 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: Italian, English

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