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Petulia is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Lester released in USA on 10 june 1968 with Julie Christie
Petulia (1968)
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Add to a movie listPetulia (1968) is an American drama film directed by Richard Lester. The screenplay by Lawrence B. Marcus is based on the novel Me and the Arch Kook Petulia by John Haase.
The film stars Julie Christie, George C. Scott, and Richard Chamberlain, with Arthur Hill, Shirley Knight, Pippa Scott, Kathleen Widdoes, Richard Dysart, Ruth Kobart, Joseph Cotten, and Ellen Geer in supporting roles. Howard Hesseman and Rene Auberjonois make uncredited appearances. Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Grateful Dead playing "Viola Lee Blues", The Committee, and Ace Trucking Company are briefly featured in club sequences. Grateful Dead members Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, and Bill Kreutzmann appear in cameos during the movie's apartment house medical emergency scene as onlookers. Jerry Garcia also appears in duplicate on a large mural and in triplicate on a bus bench both times in stylized solid black and white.
It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. Petulia has influenced filmmaker Steven Soderbergh.
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The film has a non-linear construction with frequent flash-backs and flash-forwards (especially at the beginning of the film.) The title character is a young San Francisco socialite married to a savagely abusive man. She finagles a meeting with physician Archie Bollen, whom she first saw and with whom she became smitten as he treated an injured Mexican boy. Bollen is in the process of divorcing his wife, is sifting through new relationships with his ex, the new man in her life, his sons, and friends who knew him only as one-half of a couple. The two soon embark on a quirky relationship.Actors
Julie Christie
(Petulia Danner)
George C. Scott
(Dr. Archie Bollen)
Richard Chamberlain
(Dave Danner)
Arthur Hill
(Barney)
Shirley Knight
(Polo)
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