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John and Mary

1969 · 1h 32m · R Drama, Romance
Directed by Peter Yates

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Overview

John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.

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All reviews
38%
Tomatometer
Rotten

John and Mary is supposed to be a contemporary movie, I guess, and yet it's curiously out of touch.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

The entire charade is smoothly contrived.

Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten

Hoffman and Farrow awake to each other in a New York bed and interminably worry, via chat, fantasy, flashback and some trendy cultural reference, whether they should do it again.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten

There is nothing wrong with the idea of John and Mary, just with its execution.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh

Director Yates knows how to shape even the sketchiest scenario, and if John and Mary is no deeper than an eggshell, it is every bit as functionally designed.

TIME Magazine

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