Inside Daisy Clover

1965

Action / Drama / Music / Romance

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 16 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 4610 4.6K

tom boy beach movie business marriage of convenience hollywood aspiring actor

Plot summary

A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.

Director

Robert Mulligan Photo
Robert Mulligan

Top cast

Jeffrey Sayre Photo
Jeffrey Sayre as Technician
Merv Griffin Photo
Merv Griffin as Radio Announcer
Betty Harford Photo
Betty Harford as Gloria Clover Goslett
Gertrude Flynn Photo
Gertrude Flynn as Daisy's Nurse
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.15 GB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 8 min
Seeds 5
2.14 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 8 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by kwindrum 7 / 10

Unclassifiable, odd film

This movie often seems surrealistic, sometimes comic, sometimes despairing and it has musical numbers which come from another dimension entirely--they are a mix of Busby Berkeley and 1960s design. The film seems like an eccentric comedy at first with 15 year-old tomboy Daisy (Natalie Wood) and her wacky mother (Ruth Gordon) both competing over who can chew scenery faster. Suddenly, she's plucked by sinister studio head Christopher Plummer and turned into a star. The studios of the time were certainly often sinister, but I found the dispatch of Ma Clover to the mental institution a bit of a stretch. The film has other implausible moments plus a tone of anachronism as the songs, by Andre and Dory Previn, are 1960s Broadway in style. Many scenes of loneliness and isolation--a strangely deserted Santa Monica pier,an empty desert motel, a studio that always seems empty, even the sound stages seem empty. You rarely see the bustle you expect in a film set at a studio or in Hollywood. This is an odd, fascinating, 1/2 successful film.
Reviewed by hrd1963 5 / 10

A disappointment.

Depression-era, rags-to-riches story with Natalie Wood as the tomboy-heroine abandoned by her father and living with her eccentric mother in a run-down shack by the seashore. Discovered by a film producer (the darkly sinister Christopher Plummer), Daisy quickly achieves stardom as a musical singing star (a la Judy Garland) but, unable to cope with the sudden fame, she escapes into a romance with matinée idol Robert Redford. Later realizing that Redford is gay and that her studio sees her only as a commodity, a disillusioned Daisy has a nervous breakdown and attempts suicide before finally finding the strength to turn her back on Hollywood. On the face of it, this film (based on a novel by Gavin Lambert) sounds compelling but too many cartoonish situations and characters (particularly Daisy's mother and sister) undermine the story. Natalie Wood, herself, is allowed to overdo the tomboyish nature of Daisy's personality (she's like a female Huck Finn). Christopher Plummer and Robert Redford are both very good, however, and, in supporting roles, Roddy McDowall and Katherine Bard lurk mysteriously in the background (Bard seems to belong in a different film entirely. When she confronts Daisy following Daisy's failed marriage to the matinée idol, it's like Jane Eyre coming face to face with Rodchester's mad wife). A disappointment.
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