“An engaging adaptation of Paul Zindel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play…Paul Newman's cool, lucid direction transforming what could have been a pretentious domestic drama into a touching account of small joys in sad and stunted lives.”
– Time Out London
“Newman has gotten it all together here as a director, letting the story and the players unfold with simplicity, restraint, and discernment.”
– Variety
Director Paul Newman and screenwriter Alvin Sargent bring Paul Zindel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, to the screen in this 1972 adaptation starring Joanne Woodward as a struggling working-class widow, the disturbed mother of two girls. Oldest daughter Ruth (Roberta Wallach) is a rebellious adolescent, already in trouble; younger child Matilda (Nell Potts, daughter of Newman and Woodward) may still have a chance, like some of the flowers in her school science project, which lends the film its title.
LANGUAGE: English
VIDEO: 1080p High Definition / 1.85:1
AUDIO: English 1.0 DTS-HD MA
SUBTITLES: English SDH
1972 / Color
101 MINUTES
RATED PG
Special Features: Isolated Music & Effects Track / Original Theatrical Trailer
Limited Edition of 3,000 Units
