Cactus Flower 1969 123movies

Watch: Cactus Flower 1969 123movies, Full Movie Online – Toni Simmons believes that the only reason her married lover won’t leave his wife is because of the children. Actually, her lover, dentist Julian Winston, doesn’t have any children. In fact, he doesn’t even have a wife–he just tells women he does to avoid getting involved. When Julian does decide to take the plunge with Toni, she insists on meeting the first wife and Julian enlists the aid of his long-time nurse/receptionist Stephanie Dickinson to play the part..
Plot: Distraught when her middle-aged lover breaks a date with her, 21-year-old Toni Simmons attempts suicide. Impressed by her action, her lover, dentist Julian Winston reconsiders marrying Toni, but he worries about her insistence on honesty. Having fabricated a wife and three children, Julian readily accepts when his devoted nurse, Stephanie, who has secretly loved Julian for years, offers to act as his wife and demand a divorce.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 11,006
	85% | RottenTomatoes
	67/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 173 Popularity: 9.382 | TMDB

Reviews:

A beautiful movie.
Walter Matthau is wonderful as the “philandering” dentist Dr. Julian Winston whose frequent fibs to girlfriend Goldie provide textbook proof of the dangers of lying. Goldie Hawn’s touching kook Toni Simmons certainly deserved to win her Oscar. Ingrid Bergman’s work as the stiff-as-starch nurse Stephanie is also touching to watch as she comes out of her shell, slowly and nervously. This is a great movie to watch in the springtime, or any time for that matter. It’s very underrated; I never heard about it until I found it in the video store, and what a find!

Enjoyable Slice of Sixties Heyday
Starting on or around 1965 American movies took a turn for the shocking and the iconoclastic which was great for the times — sort of the seeds that would pave the way for grittier, daring dramas. However, because the very decade that gave birth to these films was so ruled by its own convictions, most all of the films released at this period have dated. CACTUS FLOWER is no exception. Its very title suggests a “sunny” romantic comedy with occasional lapses into the risqué. This is not to say that it’s a bad thing: quite the contrary, films about risqué subject matter have to begin somewhere and America being a culture rooted in specific traditions, themselves laced in deep hypocrisies, shocks itself for the sake of it when seeing an indirect reflection of the mores of the time. Meanwhile, European films address these same situations, walk off looking like a million bucks, and have a longer shelf-life because what we consider scandalous, they shrug off, say “Next,” and move on.

Toni Simmons (Goldie Hawn in her breakout role), a young, very sixties bright young thing, is carrying on with a much-older dentist named Julian Winston (Walter Matthau), who has commitment issues. He can’r marry her: he’s already married. Toni decides instead of wilting away she actually wants to meet his wife and “set things straight.” Into the picture comes his assistant, Stephanie Dickinson (a luminous Ingrid Bergman, returning to American cinema after a twenty-year absence), a woman closer to his age who acts as if she and he had the perfect marriage and household. There is a reason for this: she has harbored quiet emotions for Julian, emotions he is unaware of, even when he asks her to play his wife to ward Toni off from wanting to step their relationship further. And then he steps it up a notch when Toni’s blissfully innocent actions veer the action off into the unexpected and he introduces Harvey Greenfield (Jack Weston) as Stephanie’s “lover”. By the way, Harvey is also an older gent who is having an affair with a much younger woman (Eve Bruce) whom he also lies to in one very funny scene.

It’s funny how the person whom we’re looking for is the one who’s always been there. What could have been a thankless role for Rick Lenz who plays Igor Sullivan, Toni’s next door neighbor, turns into the man who not only sees the true beauty in fellow outcast Stephanie but the one who saves Toni at the start from killing herself. (Not the stuff of comedy, suicide. Then again, this is not your average comedy.) And needless to say is Ingrid Bergman’s subtle, poignant portrayal of a woman who’s somehow missed her chances at love, who’s become prickly, who due to a lie said to another she becomes the real person she was always meant to be. I can’t imagine anyone else in this quiet but deep role.

Movies like these can be enjoyed at face-value and seen as escapist fun — a product of its times — or be viewed for the deep symbolism that, like its title, it carries deep within. It’s a tricky film, the same way Hawn’s and Bergman’s performance are equally tricky because in seeming so simple, devoid of flourish and pose, neither come out and proclaim what they are about. Their acting becomes “not really acting” but playing real people, warts and all. CACTUS FLOWER is a story that never appears to take itself too seriously, but reveals itself to be deep and very human after all.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 44 min (104 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated M
Genre Comedy, Romance
Director Gene Saks
Writer Abe Burrows, Pierre Barillet, Jean-Pierre Grédy
Actors Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 6 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm