Thank you, threepines, for a lovely homage to this amazing film. I, too, saw it when young and was altered by it. It got some oddly bad reviews when released, but then reviewers are often wrong-headed about brilliance (Citizen Kane also got bad reviews). I had seen Tuesday Weld as a girl in teenage sillies, so I was so impressed by her bravery to cast off that old baggage. Like Natalie Wood in another underrated film (though not as good as this one), Inside Daisy Clover (where Robert Redford plays a gay actor when no other Hollywood actor would have).
Review of Play It As It Lays
