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The Sterile Cuckoo (1969) on Netflix

PG19691h 47mComedyDrama

Mary Ann Adams, known as Pookie, meets reserved Jerry Payne while both wait for buses to their colleges. Her surprise visit to his campus turns a friendship into a romance.

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  • Rotten Tomatoes88%

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Pookie Adams and Jerry Payne meet at a bus stop, each waiting for a ride to the college they are about to start. Both are in their first year, and their schools sit near each other. Aboard the bus she tells a nun something untrue so that she can take a seat nearer him. Jerry, quiet and reserved, notices that Pookie is odd and hard to predict. Once he has settled into campus life, she arrives at his college one Saturday without warning. They spend the weekend together and then begin seeing each other regularly. Jerry grows fond of her, but the ways they differ keep getting in the way.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)

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  • The Sterile Cuckoo was Alan J. Pakula's directing debut, and was adapted by Alvin Sargent from John Nichols's 1965 novel.

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