Search - Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1973 DVD Release: 09/08/2009 Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 50 mins Studio: Sony Pictures Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Drama, Romance, Romantic Drama

Filmed in 1971 under the title The Widower, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing finally reached the screen in 1973. Set in Spain, the film stars Timothy Bottoms as the aimless son of doctor Charles Baxter. While bicycling through the Spanish countryside, Charles makes the acquaintance of much-older Lila (Maggie Smith.) He falls in love with her, but she is resistant. Eventually touched by Charles' clumsy sincerity, Lila invites him to bed. The film then wanders into Love Story territory when Lila is afflicted by a terminal illness. Director Alan J. Pakula completed Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing during the "cooling off" period between his more famous Klute (1971) and The Parallax View (1974). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Maggie Smith - LIla Fisher
Timothy Bottoms - Walter Elbertson
Emiliano Redondo - The Spanish Gentleman
Charles Baxter - Dr. Elbertson
Lloyd Brimhall - Carl