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Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973)
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Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Filmed in 1971 under the title The Widower, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing finally reached the screen in 1973. Set in Spain, the film stars Timothy Bottoms as the aimless son of doctor Charles Baxter. While bicycling through the Spanish countryside, Charles makes the acquaintance of much-older Lila (Maggie Smith.) He falls in love with her, but she is resistant. Eventually touched by Charles' clumsy sincerity, Lila invites him to bed. The film then wanders into Love Story territory when Lila is afflicted by a terminal illness. Director Alan J. Pakula completed Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing during the "cooling off" period between his more famous Klute (1971) and The Parallax View (1974).
Style: freeze frame
Plot: duke, age difference, bicycle, age-gap relationship, terminal illness, jealous lover, rural area, teacher, wedding, writers, vacation, jealousy, tourist, peasant, bus, spinster, father son relationship, teenage boy, thirty something, shyness, dying, lovers reunited, older woman younger man relationship, asthma, countryside ...
Place: spain
Keyword: oldies

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, couples, friendship, age difference, family relations, older woman younger man relationship and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing: The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), Dear Sidewalk (2013), My Old Lady (2014), I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007), California Suite (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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My Old Lady (2014)
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