Rabbit redux movie#
James Caan later famously said that the film wasn't released, "It escaped." Updike retained kind feelings about the film as late as 1973, he told the New York Times that he was sorry for Caan and Snodgress, who he thought were "terrific as Rabbit and his wife, and I always had a lingering hope that some day Warner might remake some of the weak scenes and then give the movie another push." decided not to spend the money on a wide release - or even screen it in New York. Rabbit, Run premiered in Reading on October 28, 1970, but the audience reaction was so bad that Warner Bros. So it was a very uneven, I would say, adaptation." James Caan went on to good things, and Carrie Snodgress made Janice much more appealing than Ruth, and made her so appealing you didn't know what the fuss was about. A movie cannot engage in this kind of debate.
It tries to agitate the reader about these questions of morality and domesticity and flight versus sticking with it. The book tries to deliver a very complex message. I thought that Rabbit, Run was too faithful to the book. John Updike said in an interview at Moravian College that while he appreciated the money received from film adaptations of his work, he felt "embarrassment and extreme unworthiness that I've caused all these gifted people - handsome actors, gorgeous actresses, gifted directors and cameramen - I've put them all in this kind of box they can't get out of, the box being my little story, whose life on paper and from thence into the mind of the reader I tried to make as real as I could, but which in the film media, becomes kind of nonsense. Rabbit, Run was shot on location in 1969 in Updike's home town of Reading, Pennsylvania, with many locals playing extras. Updike had wanted to write the screenplay but the offer did not come, which disappointed the author, as he had deliberately written the novel like a film, in present tense. Kreitsek's screenplay, adapted from John Updike's 1960 novel. Made for Warner Bros-Seven Arts, the film was directed by Jack Smight from producer Howard B. Also in the cast were Jack Albertson as Rabbit's former coach, and Henry Jones and Josephine Hutchinson as Rabbit's parents. He just keeps on running into the arms of another woman - a part-time prostitute named Ruth (Anjanette Comer) in a fruitless search for happiness.
Unhappy and feeling trapped, former high school basketball star Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom (James Caan) leaves the house to buy his pregnant, alcoholic wife Janice (Carrie Snodgress) a pack of cigarettes and doesn't return. Every guy whose marriage got bogged down in dishes and diapers, and found a way out with a woman" proclaimed the trailer for Rabbit, Run (1970). Although he promises to do so, Rabbit is still unable to make a commitment to anyone and runs away again. Fleeing from the cemetery, he goes to Ruth's apartment but Ruth, who is now pregnant with his child, refuses to let him in unless he agrees to divorce Janice and marry her. At the funeral, Rabbit responds to his parents' and in-laws' accusing glances by screaming his innocence. Learning of his child's death, Rabbit returns home and finds that everyone holds him responsible. Janice resumes her solitary drinking, this time with tragic results while in a drunken stupor, she accidentally drowns the baby. For a time, they live in relative harmony, but Janice's insistence on a less active sex life leads to bitterness, and Rabbit again takes off. Eventually, Rabbit also becomes disenchanted with Ruth, and when Janice has her baby, Rabbit goes to the hospital and effects a reconciliation. When Rabbit moves in with Ruth, Jack Eccles, the family minister, tries to persuade him to return to his wife, but Rabbit refuses. Marty decides that Rabbit needs a woman, and he introduces him to Ruth, a part-time prostitute. Following an argument with Janice, Rabbit looks up his old basketball coach Marty Tothero, who is now living in squalor. In Reading, Pennsylvania, former high school basketball star Rabbit Angstrom is dissatisfied with both his failure to find a career and with his loveless marriage to Janice, an alcoholic who is pregnant with a child neither of them wants.
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