“Loving” is a 1970 movie starring George Segal, Eva Marie Saint and Keenan Wynn.
If you’ve never heard of it — and I sure haven’t — here’s a review from IMDB:
George Segal (not as scruffy as he typically had been at the start of the decade) plays a troubled husband and father suffering through career uncertainty who cheats on his wife (Eva Marie Saint, cast yet again as a doormat-spouse). Segal is an affable screen presence, but we never learn much about what makes him tick, what causes him to hurt the ones he loves.
Talented director Irvin Kershner hit a few snags in his career; here, the semi-improvisational ground he’s treading desperately needs a center, or a leading character we can attach some emotions to. The dramatic finale is well-realized, and Segal’s comeuppance is provocative and thoughtful–at least something is HAPPENING; overall, it’s a cynical slice of the marriage blahs, one that probably played a lot fresher in 1970 than it does today.
Somehow, Andy Laskin found it on TCM. (Turner’s definition of “classic movies” is quite broad.)
Suddenly, he spotted a familiar locale:
“Loving” was not nearly as successful as other movies filmed in Westport, like “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit” or “The Stepford Wives.”
Nor is it as well remembered as (my favorite) “Manny’s Orphans.”
But it reminds us of a time when nearly every Westporter commuted to New York.
And of a train station that — except for that long-gone wooden building — still looks almost the same as it did, 50 years ago.
