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| Character | Marion Sam | |
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| Scene type / Who are | Married, Having an argument, Beating somebody, Scolding somebody | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Year | 1988 | |
| Period | 20th Century | |
| Description | Marion and her first husband argue about the fact that Marion had an abortion | |
| Details | 1 hr 5 minutes into the film | |
Summary
Marion Post (Gena Rowlands) is an accomplished philosophy professor who decides to take some time off to write a novel. She rents an apartment that is next door to a psychiatrist's office. As the walls are very thin, she can hear everything they say and soon becomes drawn to the stories that one of the patients, Hope (Mia Farrow), tells her psychiatrist.
Those stories remind her of her past and she has a mid life crisis as her marriage is getting monotonous and she remembers all her problems with her family, friends and her first husband.
Eventually she meets Hope and the two have dinner together. Marion tells her how she regrets never having had a baby and, in this flashback, we see her argue with her first husband, Sam, about the fact that she just had an abortion without telling him....
Those stories remind her of her past and she has a mid life crisis as her marriage is getting monotonous and she remembers all her problems with her family, friends and her first husband.
Eventually she meets Hope and the two have dinner together. Marion tells her how she regrets never having had a baby and, in this flashback, we see her argue with her first husband, Sam, about the fact that she just had an abortion without telling him....
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| INT. APARTMENT SAM: "How arrogant! How self-centered and feelingless!" MARION: "I told you I didn't want to have a baby!" SAM: "What do you mean you didn't wanna have a baby. It was partly mine." MARION: "Except it's my life that gets derailed." SAM: "Ohh, I'm just destroyed." MARION: "You could do all of the things you want and I have to stop and take care of it!" SAM: "But we'd share the responsibility." MARION: "Oh, that's what you say but you know it would devolve down to me." ..... |
