Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990)
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Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
Overview
This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes.
Cast
Melanie Griffith
James Woods
Molly Ringwald
Peter Weller
Beau Bridges
Elizabeth McGovern
Carmen Segarra
Felipe García Vélez
Luis Maluenda
Liza Ross
Louis Mahoney
Philip O'Brien
Dominic Hawksley
Paul Raphael
Crew
Frederic Raphael
Frederic Raphael
David Brown
John Jympson
John Graysmark
Marvin Hamlisch
Billy Williams
William S. Gilmore
Robert K. Lambert
Dorothy Parker
Ken Russell
Tony Richardson
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Day
Gary Constable
Gary Constable
Steve Yaconelli
Joan Didion
John Gregory Dunne
Ted Hartley
Yousaf Bokhari
Jerry Offsay
Valerie Curtin
Carlos Gil
Michael Solinger
Mary Therese McCarthy
Tadeo Villalba Jr.
Jane Robinson
Colin Callender
William Webb
Antonio Patón
Timian Alsaker
Michael Murray
José Antonio Sánchez
Ramón Moya
Sophie Landry
Emiliano Merino
Juan Estelrich Revesz
Pat Hay
Ann Edwards
Alfredo Belinchón
Peter Sutton
Cédric Chami
Steve Parker
John Salter
Joaquín Montero
Merlin Marston
Jule Emerson
Pedro Lazaga
Three short stories come to the screen, each focused on a man and a woman. The first is set in the 1940s, the other two in the 1920s. In “The Man in a Brooks Brothers Suit,” a businessman of about 40 plies a younger Leftist women with liquor aboard a train. They spend the night together, and he decides he’s in love with her. She plays along. In “Dusk Before Fireworks,” Kit, a youthful flapper, arrives at Hoby’s classy flat intent on an evening of passion. A constantly ringing telephone interrupts each embrace. In “Hills Like White Elephants,” a couple traveling in Spain discuss her pregnancy: he wants things to stay as they are, she sees that notion as a fiction.
