
Splendor in the Grass
There is a miracle in being young... and a fear.
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Release Date
10/10/1961Runtime
124 minsOverview
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
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EnglishBudget
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A devastating portrait of desire and social constraint in 1920s Kansas, where a young woman's passionate love for an unattainable man becomes an inescapable spiral into psychological collapse. The film watches her world contract from possibility to devastation with inexorable, melancholic precision.
Mood
MelancholicWistfulBittersweetDread-soaked
Themes
LoveComing of ageClassObsessionGrief
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
NaturalisticPainterly
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Suicide and self-harm
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