By Violet LeVoit
Sweet November
Brief Synopsis
A woman refuses to let her romances last longer than one month.
Cast & Crew
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Robert Ellis Miller
Director
Anthony Newley
Charlie Blake
Sandy Dennis
Sara Deever
Theodore Bikel
Alonzo
Burr Debenning
Clem Batchman
Sandy Baron
Richard
Film Details
Genre
Romance
Drama
Release Date
Jan
1968
Premiere Information
New York opening: 8 Feb 1968
Production Company
Gina Productions
Distribution Company
Warner Bros.--Seven Arts, Inc.
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 54m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (Technicolor)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.85 : 1
Synopsis
Each month of the year, Sara Deever, a Brooklyn Heights woman who leases apartments and sublets them at a profit, shares her bohemian flat with a different man with different "conformist hang-ups." In this way, she feels that she has helped someone and, in turn, she will always be remembered. One day in October, she meets Charlie, a staid British manufacturer, and invites him to be her "November." Intrigued by the offer and the woman, Charlie accepts. As the days pass, Charlie finds himself losing his inhibitions and falling in love with Sara. But when he asks to stay beyond November, Sara tells him that he must leave, as all his predecessors have done, on the last day of the month. Then Charlie learns from a neighbor and friend, Alonzo, that Sara is dying from an incurable illness. Overcoming his grief, Charlie begs Sara to seize whatever happiness she can by letting him remain. Although she knows that for the first time she is truly in love, Sara tells Charlie that he must go. On the last night of the month, Sara packs Charlie's bags and waits for "December" to arrive. When he does, Charlie kisses Sara goodby and reminds her that she will never be forgotten.
Director
Robert Ellis Miller
Director
Cast
Anthony Newley
Charlie Blake
Sandy Dennis
Sara Deever
Theodore Bikel
Alonzo
Burr Debenning
Clem Batchman
Sandy Baron
Richard
Marj Dusay
Carol
Martin West
Gordon
Virginia Vincent
Mrs. Schumacher
King Moody
Digby
Robert Gibbons
Sam Naylor
Crew
Dorothy Aldrin
Script Supervisor
Gordon Bau
Makeup Supervisor
Leslie Briscusse
Composer
Daniel L. Fapp
Director of Photography
Fred Gammon
Assistant Director
Jerry Gershwin
Producer
Jerry Gershwin
Company
Fred Giles
Assistant Director
James Heckert
Film Editor
Ralph S. Hurst
Set Decoration
Stanley Jones
Sound
Elliott Kastner
Company
Elliott Kastner
Producer
Michel Legrand
Music comp & Conductor
Michel Legrand
Composer
John Robert Lloyd
Art Director
Anthony Newley
Composer
Herman Raucher
Screenwriter
Jean Burt Reilly
Supervisor hairstylist
Ann Roth
Costume Design
Bert Steinberger
Dial Supervisor
Videos
Movie Clip
Hosted Intro
Film Details
Genre
Romance
Drama
Release Date
Jan
1968
Premiere Information
New York opening: 8 Feb 1968
Production Company
Gina Productions
Distribution Company
Warner Bros.--Seven Arts, Inc.
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 54m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (Technicolor)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.85 : 1
Articles
Sweet November (1968) -
After Sandy Dennis won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1966 for Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, she tackled this other nose-thumbing rebuke to square marriage: free spirit Sara (Dennis) sets her sights on repressed cardboard box executive Charlie (Anthony Newley) and invites him to be her lover for one, and only one, month, complete with residency privileges at her kooky multi-level warehouse pad in Brooklyn Heights. Why just one month? She's got her reasons -- and when previous bedmates-of-the-month swing by to say hello, Charlie realizes how profound -- and tragic -- her offer really is. Viewers will be enthralled not only by Sara's mod playhouse of an apartment, or its gentle approach to "free love", but by the incomparable Dennis's performance as an early incarnation of the "manic pixie dream girl" archetype. Written by Herman Raucher, whose Summer of '42 (1971) was also about a man's transformative encounter with an unconventional woman.
By Violet LeVoit
By Violet LeVoit
Sweet November (1968) -
After Sandy Dennis won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1966 for Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, she tackled this other nose-thumbing rebuke to square marriage: free spirit Sara (Dennis) sets her sights on repressed cardboard box executive Charlie (Anthony Newley) and invites him to be her lover for one, and only one, month, complete with residency privileges at her kooky multi-level warehouse pad in Brooklyn Heights. Why just one month? She's got her reasons -- and when previous bedmates-of-the-month swing by to say hello, Charlie realizes how profound -- and tragic -- her offer really is. Viewers will be enthralled not only by Sara's mod playhouse of an apartment, or its gentle approach to "free love", but by the incomparable Dennis's performance as an early incarnation of the "manic pixie dream girl" archetype. Written by Herman Raucher, whose Summer of '42 (1971) was also about a man's transformative encounter with an unconventional woman.
By Violet LeVoit
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Notes
Location scenes filmed in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Winter February 1968
Released in United States Winter February 1968
