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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972) on Netflix

PG19721h 40mDrama

Widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer shares a rundown house with her daughters Ruth and Matilda. Beatrice dreams of an elegant tea room she cannot afford; Matilda takes to her pets and her schoolwork.

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  • Netflix3.8/5
  • IMDb7.4/102,949 votes
  • Rotten Tomatoes77%

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Beatrice Hunsdorfer is a middle-aged widow with two daughters, Ruth and Matilda. The three of them live on Staten Island, New York, in a rundown house in a modest neighborhood, and money is always short. Beatrice wants to open an elegant tea room but has nothing to open it with. Ruth, a teenager with epilepsy, is rebellious at home. Matilda is shy, clever and full of ideals, and she takes comfort in her pets and in her schoolwork. Her mother embarrasses her, and she has learned to live with it. One project of hers tests what small doses of gamma radiation from cobalt-60 do to marigolds.

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  • Paul Newman chose to shoot the Staten Island-set film in Bridgeport, Connecticut, because the location was only 17 minutes from his home in Westport.

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