"In this mythic diorama of 'all that American life could be,' the velvety blacks and pearly whites are all the screen can hold. Alton has filled this heady vision with a luminous eros that shimmers with the expectations of a stunning adolescent. Could those breezy curtains be any brighter and still be? Will the bubble hold? We are on the brink!" (Nathaniel Dorsky) "The first portent of the impending wedding is an innocent spoon of the whitest ice cream imaginable slipping into Liz Taylor's musing face. Once impregnated, we can watch the glowing molecule do its busy work till Liz herself, in a brilliant white dress, becomes the full promise of her dreamy ingestion. Alton's dark pallette is reserved for the world of the troubled parents. A dark bedroom is the setting for Spencer Tracy's transfer of mental distress to his wife so he can grab a few winks. Otherwise, dark atmospheres are the settings for Tracy's self-revelation: the opening post-party narration and his hilariously gloomy dream." (Jerome Hiler)