Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon is a 1970 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Otto Preminger. The film is based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Marjorie Kellogg.
==Plot==
Junie Moon is a girl whose face was scarred in a vicious battery acid attack by her boyfriend Jesse. In an institution, she meets Arthur, who lives with epilepsy, and Warren, a gay paraplegic who uses a wheelchair. The trio are disabled but not down, and they decide to live together in an older, rented house, determined to help one another and to prove themselves.
==Cast==
* Liza Minnelli as Junie Moon
* Ken Howard as Arthur
* Robert Moore as Warren
* James Coco as Mario
* Kay Thompson as Gregory
* Fred Williamson as Beach Boy
* Ben Piazza as Jesse
* Leonard Frey as Guiles
* Anne Revere as Miss Farber
* Julie Bovasso as Ramona
* Clarice Taylor as Minnie
* Angelique Pettyjohn as Melissa
* Wayne Tippit as Dr. Miller
* Nancy Marchand as Nurse Oxford
* Ric O'Barry as Joebee (credited as Ric O'Feldman)
* Lynn Milgrim as Nurse Holt
===Musicians===
* Pete Seeger ("Old Devil Time")
* Pacific Gas & Electric ("The Rake", "Work Your Show", "Elvira")
==Release==
The film premiered at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival on May 10, 1970. The film opened at the Beekman Theatre in New York City on July 1, 1970.
==Reception and legacy==
Unlike Minnelli's previous film, 1969's The Sterile Cuckoo, which was successful artistically and financially, as well as netting Minnelli an Oscar nomination as Best Actress, Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon was a disappointment to most critics and a financial failure at the box office. Roger Ebert was one of the few critics who did not dislike the film and particularly praised the performances of Minnelli, Coco and Moore.
Ebert summed up his review:The ending is not convincing, alas; we're never quite sure what happened to the Howard character, or why. And surely in 1970 people don't make tender speeches and then die on cue in their lover's arms. But, on balance, the movie works and tells us something about three or four good people who are trying to cope. That's enough.
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