Six Weeks
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| Directed by | Tony Bill |
| Produced by | Peter Guber Jon Peters |
| Written by | David Seltzer (screenplay) Fred Mustard Stewart (novel) |
| Starring | Dudley Moore Mary Tyler Moore Katherine Healy |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 24, 1982 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $11,000,000 |
| Box office | $6,700,000 |
Six Weeks is a 1982 film drama, directed by Tony Bill and based on a novel by Fred Mustard Stewart. It stars Dudley Moore and Mary Tyler Moore.
Co-star Katherine Healy was a professional figure skater and a ballerina, both talents demonstrated by her character in the film.
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[edit] Plot summary
Charlotte Dreyfus, a wealthy cosmetic tycoon and her 12-year-old daughter Nicole, who's dying from leukemia, strike up a sentimental friendship with a California politician, Patrick Dalton. Nicole has decided to abandon all further treatments for the disease because of the treatments' side effects.
Since the girl has only six weeks or less to live, the trio fly to New York City where the daughter skates the ice rink at Rockefeller Center, assumes the lead role of Marie in The Nutcracker with the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center, and sightsees most of the city. During her subway ride returning from her triumphant performance in the Tchaikovsky ballet, she suddenly collapses and dies in her mother's arms, having achieved her lifelong dream.
In the final scene, Patrick and Charlotte remember Nicole, and it is obvious the couple will have a future together.
[edit] Reaction
The film was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, one for Dudley Moore for Best Actor in a Dramatic Motion Picture and one for Katherine Healy as Best New Female Star of the Year. However, Mary Tyler Moore's performance earned a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress.
The film was reviled as tasteless by critics, especially for a scene in which Nicole acts as "minister" for Charlotte and Patrick in a mock wedding ceremony, which she concludes with "I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the child" (meaning Nicole, of course).
The film is one of the first instances of a theatrical film in which we see, in widescreen and color, scenes from George Balanchine's production of The Nutcracker.
[edit] Cast
- Dudley Moore as Patrick Dalton
- Mary Tyler Moore as Charlotte Dreyfus
- Katherine Healy as Nicole
- Shannon Wilcox as Peg Dalton
[edit] References
- Maslin, Janet (December 17, 1982), "Six Weeks", New York Times, http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9506E2DB103BF934A25751C1A964948260.
- Tucker, Ken (December 18, 1982), "A Film That Suffocates In Its Own Lack Of Emotion", Philadelphia Inquirer.
- Porter, Bob (January 8, 1983), "Mary Tyler Moore Was After Comedy But Got 'Six Weeks'", Hartford Courant.
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