Joy in the Morning (1965)

Directed by Alex Segal
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

Richard Chamberlain and Yvette Mimieux are a young, impulsive and immature couple. They elope and move into a small campus cottage where he has a job as a groundskeeper. The pressures of school, jobs, parents and money mount. A subtext examines the small town attitudes towards Yvette's gay friend and her unmarried employer who lives with his mistress. It's not always a pleasant movie, and at times you just want to yell out loud at their stupidity, but it is an interesting slice of life in a smalltown circa 1965.