The Subject Was Roses (film)

The Subject Was Roses is a 1968 American Metrocolor drama film directed by Ulu Grosbard. The screenplay by Frank D. Gilroy is based on his 1964 Pulitzer Prizewinning play of the same title.

Returning to his Bronx home following World War II, Timmy Cleary Martin Sheen discovers his middle class parents have drifted apart and constantly quarrel at the least provocation. Once closer to his mother Nettie Patricia Neal, the young veteran finds himself bonding with his salesman father John Jack Albertson, but he tries to remain neutral when intervening in their disputes.En route home after a day trip to the familys summer cottage with his father, Timmy purchases a bouquet of roses and suggests John present them to his wife. Nettie is thrilled by his apparent thoughtfulness, and the three spend the evening nightclubbing in Manhattan. When an inebriated John, whose infidelities have already been revealed, attempts to make love to his wife later that night, Nettie rejects his advances, suggesting he go to one of his whores, and breaks the vase of flowers, prompting her husband to reveal it really was Timmy who bought them. ........

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