The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

June. 01,1981

Rating：

6.7

Genre：

Drama

Keywords：

Marriage Married Couple Marriage Crisis

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Three Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young married couple stop for a drink on a Sunday morning in Manhattan, and the conversation turns to the husband's fidelity. "The Monument" centers on the conflict between a popular bartender with a following in an upscale Irish bar in 1938 Manhattan and its owner, who is determined to introduce a more economical whiskey in the establishment over the barkeep's objections. In "The Man Who Married a French Wife" the influential American husband of a French woman is asked by her former lover, a former resistance fighter, to help him escape the country.

Jeff Bridges as Michael Loomis

Carol Kane as Frances Loomis

Charles Durning as McMahon

Brian Dennehy as Grimmet

Claudine Auger as Ginette Beauchurch

Pierre Santini as Claude Morin

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Reviews

Listonixio

1981/06/01

Fresh and Exciting

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JinRoz

1981/06/02

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

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Beystiman

1981/06/03

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

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Kamila Bell

1981/06/04

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

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