{"id":5916,"date":"2008-09-19T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T19:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2021-01-31T00:27:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T07:27:45","slug":"one-is-a-lonely-number-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5916","title":{"rendered":"One is a Lonely Number (1972)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Aimee, you have got to snap out of it: you&#8217;re not the first girl to go through this, and you&#8217;re not going to be the last!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Poster-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Poster-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Poster-85x128.jpg 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Poster.jpg 503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen her husband (Paul Jenkins) suddenly decides to divorce her, a woman (Trish Van Devere) struggles to create a new life for herself.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Divorce<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Feminism and Women&#8217;s Issues<\/li>\n<li>Melvyn Douglas Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThis hard-to-find melodrama &#8212; made shortly before Martin Scorsese&#8217;s <em>Alice Doesn&#8217;t Live Here Anymore<\/em> broke ground in American feminist cinema &#8212; is earnest and well-meaning but ultimately a disappointment. While Van Devere (George C. Scott&#8217;s wife) is an appealing heroine, and tries her best with the material she&#8217;s been given, she can&#8217;t quite overcome either the pedantic script or the amateurish performances of most of her co-stars. The best, most natural scenes involve Melvyn Douglas as a widowed grocer who helps Van Devere to break down her shell of defensiveness and accept her loss (what a breath of fresh air his presence is!). While the script finally begins to build some steam towards the end &#8212; when Van Devere takes a chance on love with a mysterious stranger (Monte Markham) &#8212; it can&#8217;t quite make up for the pedestrian narrative that&#8217;s come before.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trish Van Devere as Aimee<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Van-Devere.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Van-Devere-1024x693.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-46692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Van-Devere-1024x693.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Van-Devere-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Van-Devere-128x87.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Van-Devere-768x520.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Van-Devere.png 1461w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Melvyn Douglas as Aimee&#8217;s widowed grocer friend<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Douglas.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Douglas-1024x678.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-46694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Douglas-1024x678.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Douglas-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Douglas-128x85.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Douglas-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/One-is-a-Lonely-Number-Douglas.png 1485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but Van Devere and Douglas make it worth a cursory look if you stumble upon it on television. Listed as a Sleeper in the back of Peary&#8217;s book.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0069044\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/1264\/one-is-a-lonely-number#articles-reviews?articleId=81400\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Aimee, you have got to snap out of it: you&#8217;re not the first girl to go through this, and you&#8217;re not going to be the last!&#8221; Synopsis: When her husband (Paul Jenkins) suddenly decides to divorce her, a woman (Trish Van Devere) struggles to create a new life for herself. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Divorce Feminism and Women&#8217;s Issues Melvyn Douglas Films Review: This hard-to-find melodrama &#8212; made shortly before Martin Scorsese&#8217;s Alice Doesn&#8217;t Live Here Anymore broke ground&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5916\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67315,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions\/67315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}