Monday, July 25, 2011

Rabbit, Run (1970)


Warner Bros.
Directed by Jack Smight
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)

James Caan plays a cad who runs away from his wife and family, takes up with a prostitute, returns to his wife when she has his baby, then leaves her again when tragedy strikes. Caan's character is simply too immature to handle marriage, much less marriage to an alcoholic. It's all extremely unpleasant, including a depressing scene of a baby drowned in a bathtub. Speaking of which, shouldn't the wife have been arrested for murder? Didn't the "priest" at least realize that?

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