The Fantasticks (film)

The Fantasticks is a 1995 musical film directed by Michael Ritchie. The screenplay by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt is based on their recordbreaking offBroadway production of the same name, which ran for 17,162 performances and was subsequently revived offBroadway.

Amos Babcock Bellamy Joel Grey and Ben Hucklebee Brad Sullivan scheme to get their respective children, Luisa Jean Louisa Kelly and Matt Joey McIntyre, to fall in love. Knowing they will resist their fathers interference, the two men use reverse psychology and fabricate a feud, building a wall between their houses and forbidding their children to speak to each other. When their plan works, they enlist the aid of El Gallo Jonathon Morris, the proprietor of a traveling carnival, to put an end to their supposed disagreement in a manner which will not reveal their deception.El Gallo pretends to kidnap Luisa with the help of his troupe, which includes elderly Shakespearean actor Henry Albertson Barnard Hughes and his mute sidekick Mortimer Teller, and arranges for Matt to rescue her. The couple settles into what they anticipate will be domestic bliss, but through the eyes of El Gallo and company they see the harsh realities of the world, and their innocent romanticism is replaced by a more mature understanding of love. ........

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