As Jerry is beginning to settle into college life with his roommate, Charlie Schumacher, the aggressive Pookie arrives unannounced one Saturday morning. Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film … Starring: Tim McIntire, Wendell Burton, Liza Minnelli. The Sterile Cuckoo. Now as an adult who has moved to an entirely different part of the country from where I was raised, I love to catch this movie on a Saturday afternoon and just take note of the locations in the film, particularly that scene where Jerry and Pookie rent a cabin by a lake.
When the pregnancy scare is over, Jerry wants to spend A week alone with the needy, somewhat unstable Pookie makes Jerry realize that they need time apart.
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Pookie Adams...For an enhanced browsing experience, get the IMDb app on your smartphone or tablet. Reviews There are no reviews yet. comment. For the novel on which it was based, see Liza Minnelli is Pookie Adams, a relentlessly kooky coed in The Sterile Cuckoo. Be the first one to write a review. 25 Films x 8 Decades: 1960s. It stars Liza Minnelli, Wendell Burton, and Tim McIntire.. He puts her on a bus for home and the young lovers part ways. The film's penultimate shot, that of Pookie looking out the bus window, was shot with the camera attached to the outside of the moving bus, but no one apparently thought about the trees lining the street behind the camera. With Liza Minnelli, Wendell Burton, Tim McIntire, Anita Alberts. Later he discovers that she has dropped out of school, and he finds her in the same boardinghouse where she had been staying the first time she visited him.
He is actively pursued by the unpredictable Pookie, who helps him to … Jerry immediately sees that Pookie is different, even strange: she lies to a nun on the bus so the nun will switch seats with her. Watch trailers, read customer and critic reviews, and buy The Sterile Cuckoo directed by Alan J. Pakula for $12.99. 22 February 2005 | maryomal Mary Ann "Pookie" Adams is a quirky teenage oddball who meets quiet, reserved Jerry Payne while waiting for a bus heading to their colleges; both are freshmen and their colleges are near each other. Pookie (Liza Minnelli) certainly fits the cuckoo promised by the title, playing a semi-Manic Pixie Dream Girl who quickly falls for dishwater dull Jerry Payne (Wendell Burton) who is obsessed with bugs.
The film's focus, however, is on Wendell Burton (likewise making his first screen appearance) as reserved young college student Jerry. Having just read The Remains of the Day after seeing (and loving) the film adaptation first I thought I’d try another novel of a film I love, The Sterile Cuckoo.This was a very different ballgame. Watch the Trailer for Exorcism At 60,000 Feet, Starring Lance Henriksen, Bill Moseley, and Adrienne BarbeauLiza Minnelli Opens Up About Mom Judy Garland, Working With Fosse and Going to Rehab aka The Sterile Cuckoo (1969) Addeddate 2018-08-28 17:45:05 Color color Identifier MyMovie_20180828 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.3 Sound sound Year 1969 . Liza Minnelli is Pookie Adams, a relentlessly kooky coed in The Sterile Cuckoo. The Sterile Cuckoo starts a bit oddly. The girl who used to babysit me had gone to watch the some of the filming and had taken pictures of Liza Minelli and her little Volkswagon Beetle that was used in the film. The movie and its soundtrack always brings back a strong sense of nostalgia and that secure feeling one always has in one's childhood and the simplicity of life as a child. The crane had the capacity to raise the camera twenty feet into the air, and was attached to an Austin, which could move at speeds up to sixty miles per hour and had "self-levelling equipment" that facilitated moving shots on uneven roads without the need for track to be laid. After they have sex, Pookie tells Jerry she might be pregnant. Pookie and Jerry spend much time together over the weekend, and soon begin to see each other regularly. The film's focus, however, is on Wendell Burton (likewise making his first screen appearance) as reserved young college student Jerry. Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of The Sterile Cuckoo with exclusive news, pictures, videos and more at TVGuide.com
Jerry falls in love with Pookie, but their different personalities start to pull them apart. Two students from neighboring colleges in upstate New York are swept up in a tragic romantic interlude calling for a maturity of vision beyond their experience of capabilities. Uncredited grip Martin Kashuk designed the $50,000 "minicrane," which was used during the six weeks of location shooting in New York. The visual is shaken for a second after tree branches inadvertently brush up against the equipment. Directed by Alan J. Pakula. The film was well-received by critics, and holds an 88% "Fresh" rating on the This article is about the 1969 film. Two students from neighboring colleges in upstate New York are swept up in a tragic romantic interlude calling for a maturity of vision beyond their experience of capabilities. This movie was filmed close to my hometown and even though I was only 5 years old when it was being filmed, I remember it vividly since it was a huge deal for a town of only 10,000 people in upstate NY. The film and the book are very different beasts.
He is actively pursued by the unpredictable Pookie, who helps him to … The Sterile Cuckoo (released in the UK as Pookie) is a 1969 American comedy-drama film released by Paramount Pictures that tells the story of an eccentric young couple whose relationship deepens despite their differences and inadequacies. Directed by: Alan J. Pakula.