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A Delicate Balance is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tony Richardson released in USA on 12 november 1973 with Katharine Hepburn
A Delicate Balance (1973)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 12 november 1973
Length 2h13
Directed by Tony Richardson
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating64%
A Delicate Balance is a 1973 drama film directed by Tony Richardson. The screenplay by Edward Albee is based on his 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.
The film was the second in a series produced by Ely A. Landau for his American Film Theatre, a subscription-based program of screen adaptations of notable stage plays shown in five hundred theaters in four hundred cities.
Synopsis
The film spans three days in the life of Agnes and Tobias, an upper middle class couple who share their comfortable suburban Connecticut home with her acerbic alcoholic sister Claire. It is matriarch Agnes who helps the trio maintain a delicate balance in their lives, held together by habit, shared memories, and considerable consumption of dry martinis.Actors
Katharine Hepburn
(Agnes)
Paul Scofield
(Tobias)
Lee Remick
(Julia)
Kate Reid
(Claire)
Joseph Cotten
(Harry)
Betsy Blair
(Edna)
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