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Title:The Arrangement

Date: 1969
Type: Drama
Rating: 3 Stars 3/5
Colour: Yes
Director: Elia Kazan
Producer: Elia Kazan


Comment
An advertising executive (Kirk Douglas) who apparently has everything, wealth, family, a good job, mistress, tries to commit suicide. He reassess his life in relation to his relationships with his parents, wfie (Deborah Kerr) and mistress (Faye Dunaway). His mental state gradually unravels as he seems to have no empathy for any of the other people in the film. The plot meanders and is confused with the various flash backs, but the strength of the film is the performances from Deborah Kerr and the long suffering, put upon wife who keeps trying to save her marriage and particularly from Faye Dunaway as the sultry woman he meets through work and starts an affair. She manages to give a performance that blends her both using the men in her life and also being used by them.

Actors

Kirk DouglasKirk Douglas
Deborah KerrDeborah Kerr
Faye DunawayFaye Dunaway
Carol Rossen
Dianne Hull

Oscars

None

The Arrangement