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Actors: Peter O'Toole, Peter Sellers, Romy Schneider, Paula Prentiss, Cappucine, Woody Allen, Ursula Andress, Edra Gale
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about What's New, Pussycat? |
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Michael James (Peter O'Toole) is a young bachelor passionately in love with his feisty girlfriend Carole, (Romy Schneider,) but afraid to marry her because women find him irresistible - and vice versa. It doesn't help that his work as a feature editor for a Paris fashion magazine surrounds him with gorgeous women.
Desperate to get the licentiousness out of his system, he turns to a psychiatrist - of sorts. Dr. Fritz Fassbender (Peter Sellers) is a demented wife-hating lecher prone to throwing tantrums and giving bad advice, like that Michael marry Carole and cheat. But Michael insists he respects her too much for that.
Tiffted over waiting while he plays, Carole takes up with Victor, a geek with a crush on her (Woody Allen, in his feature film writing and acting debut.) Michael, meanwhile, falls for Liz, (Paula Prentiss,) a pushy stripper with poetic pretentions and suicidal tendencies - but jealously insists that that is "different."
The impressed psychiatrist begins asking him for advice. Drunk with him one night, Michael helps him to flirt under the window of Renee Lefebvre, (Cappucine,) the nymphomaniac patient upon whom Fritz fixates. But she winds up becoming another of Michael's conquests.
He is stricken by guilt and nightmares, but the "pussycats" just keep falling for him. As Carole storms out of and back into his life, he never quits loving her, and his resolve to lose the others increases.
One night, when Carole's parents visit, Michael gets her to put on a happy front to keep them from being hurt. She secretly sticks her tongue out at him, but as they dance wildly, she begins to truly enjoy herself. By the end of the night, Michael realizes that he hasn't felt this relaxed for a long time. Suddenly, it just feels right. He wants marriage.
When he takes a pre-wedding work weekend at the Chateau Chantal, he is unaware that a tangle of romantic triangles, ex-lovers, and new temptations are about to converge there, and that another test of his resolve is yet to come.
--vjm, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- love triangle/polygon
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- editor/publisher
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- General European
Main Adversary
Identity:
- natural phenomena
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
unclothed?
- partially transparent clothes
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
City?
Yes
City:
- Paris
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If lots of song/dance...
- lot of dancing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Classic/oldies rock
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