John and Mary (film)

John and Mary is a 1969 American romantic drama film directed by Peter Yates. It stars Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow in the title roles, directly on the heels of Midnight Cowboy and Rosemarys Baby, respectively as well as Bullitt for Yates. The screenplay was adapted by John Mortimer from the Mervyn Jones novel.

John and Mary begins the morning after John and Mary meet in a bar, during a conversation about JeanLuc Godards Week End, and go home with each other. The story unfolds during the day as they belatedly get to know each other over breakfast, lunch and dinner. Flashbacks of their previous bad relationships are interspersed throughout when something in their conversation brings the thought up.Roger Ebert of the Chicago SunTimes says, John and Mary is supposed to be a contemporary movie, I guess, and yet its curiously out of touch. John and Mary shadow box uneasily with the American language, trying to sound like all people their age without sounding too much like any particular person. John Thompson of the Orlando Weekly calls it a delectable New Waveinspired dish for thoughtful viewers tired of the same old menu. Vincent Canby of The New York Times concludes, There is nothing wrong with the idea of John and Mary, just with its execution. ........

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