From the Pullizer Prize winning play by Paul Zindel, this is the story of Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters, Ruth and Matilda. A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for her life in the classified ads while all about her is the rubble of an unkempt house. All she needs is the right opportunity, she says puffing on a cigarette. Poorly equipped to survive the vagaries of modern life, she has nonetheless always managed to muddle through. Ruth, epileptic and making her way through the rebellious phase of adolescence, seems doomed to make the same mistakes as her mother. Quiet Matilda, on the other hand, seeks refuge in her animals and her schoolwork. “Jesus, don’t you hate the world, Matilda?” Beatrice asks her youngest daughter. The title of the film is also the subject of Matilda’s science project at school and serves as a metaphor for the way life affects each of us differently — how some are able to find opportunity in adversity and thrive and how some succumb when …
Also Known As (AKA): El efecto de los rayos gamma sobre las margaritas, De l’influence des rayons gamma sur le comportement des marguerites, Gli effetti dei raggi gamma sui fiori di Matilde, Die Wirkung von Gammastrahlen auf Ringelblumen
File Name : The.Effect.of.Gamma.Rays.on.Man.in.the.Moon.Marigolds.1972.mkv
File Size : 1564.7 MB
Resolution : 704×384
Duration : 01:36:36
Video : AVC (AVC), 2 000 Kbps, 25.000 fps
Audio : AC-3 (AC3), 256 Kbps (CBR), 48.0 KHz, 2 channels, 1 stream
Quality: DVDRip
Language: English
Subs: French (embedded)
Genre: Drama
The.Effect.of.Gamma.Rays.on.Man.in.the.Moon.Marigolds.1972.mkv
