The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories (1981)
• June 1st, 1981 • 1h 30min
Drama
Overview
Three Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young married couple stop for a drink on a Sunday morning in Manhattan, and the conversation turns to the husband's fidelity. "The Monument" centers on the conflict between a popular bartender with a following in an upscale Irish bar in 1938 Manhattan and its owner, who is determined to introduce a more economical whiskey in the establishment over the barkeep's objections. In "The Man Who Married a French Wife" the influential American husband of a French woman is asked by her former lover, a former resistance fighter, to help him escape the country.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Losing Ground
Released on: 1982-06-02
Comedy, Drama
Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the c...
Kramer vs. Kramer
Released on: 1979-12-07
Drama
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take th...
Hide and Seek
Released on: 2000-05-23
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A desperate, childless couple kidnap a pregnant woman and lead her husband to believe that she is de...
Verses of Love
Released on: 2008-02-28
Drama, Romance
Fahri attracted many women, including Maria, Nurul, and Naora. They hide their feelings until Fahri'...
Love in the Afternoon
Released on: 1972-09-01
Drama, Romance
Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to H...
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
Released on: 2008-07-23
Drama
A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life.
Don’t Cry, Butterfly
Released on: 2025-01-03
Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
Tam, a diligent wedding venue staffer, discovers her husband’s affair on live TV. Rather than confro...
Frantic
Released on: 1988-02-19
Mystery, Crime, Drama
The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web ...
Bobby
Released on: 2006-09-05
Drama
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others ...
The Clearing
Released on: 2004-07-02
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When affluent executive Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a ...
Unbreakable
Released on: 2000-11-22
Thriller, Drama, Mystery
An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers ...
Life Love Death
Released on: 1969-01-29
Drama
François Toledo, married businessman and father, falls head-over-heels in love with Janine, a work c...
War and Peace
Released on: 1956-08-21
War, Romance, Drama, History
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...
Obsessive Love
Released on: 1984-10-02
Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
A woman tries to create a relationship with the soap star who is the object of her obsession.
Gypo
Released on: 2005-08-24
Drama
Gypo is the story of a working class family in Margate, Kent, a town where immigrants have become th...
The Son's Room
Released on: 2001-03-09
Drama
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba d...
Bumpkin Oh-bok
Released on: 1961-11-11
Drama
Kind-hearted country bumpkin O-bok leads a simple life working as a long-time farmhand for the rich ...
Black Bag
Released on: 2025-03-12
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a...
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
Released on: 1970-06-28
Drama
The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.
Martha
Released on: 1974-05-28
TV Movie, Drama, Thriller
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange,...