A New Leaf

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Date: January 01, 1971 to December 31, 1971
Dates Note: 1971
Country of Origin: United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: Color
Silent: No
Based On: a short story by Jack Ritchie
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Elaine May: Age of Irony
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A New Leaf stars Walter Matthau as Henry Graham, a playboy who has squandered his wealth and must marry a rich woman or forfeit all his passions, and May as Henrietta Lowell, a nerdy heiress/botany professor and possibly Graham’s next ticket to support his idle, rich lifestyle. May adapted the screenplay from a short story by Jack Ritchie, and the film became her directorial debut. The film “reveals the essence of marital love more brutally than many confrontational melodramas” (Richard Brody, New Yorker).

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