Sunday in New York
Directed by Peter Tewksbury
Written by Norman Krasna from his play
1963/USA
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
First viewing/Amazon Instant
[box] Eileen Tyler: You said you hadn’t slept with any of them!
Adam Tyler: That’s the loophole! Sleeping![/box]
Jane Fonda grapples with her virginity in this early sixties romcom.
Twenty-two year Russ Wilson (Robert Culp) over his desire to have pre-marital sex. She travels to NYC from her home in Albany to get advice from her older brother Adam on this issue. His feeling is it is not OK and particularly not OK for Eileen. Adam, on the other hand, is involved in a hot and heavy affair of his own which keeps getting interrupted by his pilot duties.
While in New York Eileen meets cute with studly Mike Mitchell. They have the usual rocky start. She decides to seduce him to get her virginity off the table. Mike refuses when he learns she is a “beginner”. Then Russ shows up unexpectedly to propose only to find both Eileen and Mike in bath robes. He assumes Mike is Eileen’s brother. The usual hijinx ensue. Anyone who does not guess the ending has just not been paying attention.
Ah the sexual dilemmas of a more innocent time … It’s the old story with a new twist. Pretty dumb but the leads are so charming we don’t care much.
