College boy wants to study -- seriously, *wants to study*; college girl wants constant nookie and believes 'no' never means 'no' if it's a boy saying it. The director casts a Margaret Keane painting 'big-eyed waif' as the girl, and 'Charlie Brown' in the flesh as the boy. All drenched in a treacly folk music score following suit with the cloying easy-listener 'Come Saturday Morning' and its dopey contrived 'poetical' lyric rolling over the titles.Saw this as a teen late in its original release (1970), and again last night (4 June 2017). Same throw-up-in-the-mouth-a-little reaction.And did I tell you I love Liza Minnelli? Really. But phenomena like her need careful placement, as 'Cabaret' proves.Poor novice actor Wendell Burton as the boy gets no help from anybody here -- so just keeps playing the same awkward introvert boy-playing-hard-to-get thing over and over. Liza acts up a storm. Not in the same movie these two. Everybody else is a cardboard cut-out. Nice gratuitous ugly homophobic slurs from Liza re her love object's drunk jock roommate.But I give it a ten because -- well -- actors trapped in a project not serving them well get my undying sympathy. It has achieved cult status, so this old curmudgeon's opinion can't hurt it.

In your good review of The Sterile Cuckoo your remark that Liza's mom didn't perform as real or sensitive or genuine in all of her movies. Yes, most would agree since Judy Garland's film roles centered mostly on what Judy did best - "entertaining." Other than her heart-wrenching testimony on the witness stand in Judgment at Nuremberg or trying to help a mentally retarded young man in A Child Is Waiting, in I Could Go On Singing was a showcase for Judy, both as actress and as a performer, (her scenes at the Palladium were probably as close as the movies ever get to capturing her on-stage persona), she's exhilarating and incredibly moving. And trying to reconnect with her young son left with her ex-husband is truly special. When she gets around to her drunken 'I can't be spread so thin' speech all traces of the character have been wiped clean and it's Judy, raw and emotional, on screen. This was her final film, and you can say she went out on a high.

This film, along with the performances of the two principals, Minnelli and Burton, as well as the soundtrack, evoke a time in everyone's past, at some time or other.As two drifting college students, they have a chance meeting, become interested in each other, then gradually grow apart. The sets are evocative of New England and upstate New York, beautiful in autumn, beautiful and sad. Reminding us perhaps of past relationships, longing, and wishes that were never fulfilled.The soundtrack is sentimental, but not overly so, I am not a major fan of Minnelli, but in this film her performance was understated and believable. The film leaves us with a sense of loss and longing, recalling times we were younger, relationships of the past. 8/10.

This movie touches something in all of us that i think Lizzie minnelli brought to the service so well she deserved an Oscar nom in her first performance.Most of us at some point in our lives,often when young have clung to love,or been clung to-to tightly.The result often being the other person at some point feels as though they cant breath they feel suffocated.This creates awkward moments and much introspection as we question what does love truly mean does it mean I have to be with you and know where you are 24 hours a day.Does it mean i let go my friends because you don't seem to like them. I'm a male who gets sad every time I see this movie.All of us have felt loneliness and come across some people who are plagued by it.Lizzie Minnelli ,and Wendell Burton showed the dynamics of young love and all its bittersweet ironies.This movie reminds us of being young and breaking up with someone you at one point cared deeply for.