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Drama, Romance 90 min NR
Rotten Tomatoes96%Metacritic82IMDb
It's the love story of an unsung hero!
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother, is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward, he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. He then meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher. Realising their emotional connection, Marty promises to call, but family and friends try to convince him not to.
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Summary: 7/10: a well-crafted slice of 1950s life that earns its Best Picture Oscar even if much of it feels like anthropology now. Funny, amusing, and quite dated, but an enjoyable watch anyway. Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning screenplay, expanded from his own television play, captures a specific moment in working-class Bronx life with sharp ear for dialogue and genuine affection for its characters, even when those characters are casually cruel to each other in ways that feel distinctly of their era. Ernest Borgnine is wonderful as Marty, the lonely butcher who's been told he's too ugly, too boring, too old to find love. Borgnine brings vulnerability and dignity to a man who's internalized everyone else's low opinion of him, and when he meets Clara at a dance, you believe completely in his cautious hope. Betsy Blair matches him perfectly as Clara, a schoolteacher equally convinced of her own undesirability. Their tentative connection feels real, hard-won, precious. The supporting cast is uniformly good, from Marty's suffocating mother to his buddies who offer terrible advice while standing on street corners with nothing better to do. Director Delbert Mann keeps the pacing tight an
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