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- 1955
- Approved
- United Artists
- 1 h 30 m
- 1955
- Approved
- United Artists
- 1 h 30 m
Summary A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.
Directed By: Delbert Mann
Written By: Paddy Chayefsky
- 1955
- Approved
- United Artists
- 1 h 30 m
- 1955
- Approved
- United Artists
- 1 h 30 m
Marty
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Summary A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.
Directed By: Delbert Mann
Written By: Paddy Chayefsky
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
82
94% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
82
94% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Marty is full of magic; all through the show you find yourself thinking, "That's me up there." [15 Aug 1955, p.4B]
Marty is a must-see picture. [11 Jan 1956, p.6]
Paddy Chayefsky, who wrote the script, has captured the human element deftly. Here are human beings as they really are, refreshingly life-like, piteously real, and often hilariously funny. [16 May 1955, p.15]
Marty makes a warm and winning film, full of the sort of candid comment on plain, drab people that seldom reaches the screen.
Enormously influential, it spawned Hollywood's interest in smaller scale, prosaic dramas, few of which failed to match its resonance.
It is a sentimental, heart-warming, simple story of a couple of ugly ducklings who find compensation for their lack of good looks in each other's love.
You have to have considerable tolerance to make it through Chayefsky's repetitive dialogue, his insistence on the humanity of "little" people, and his attempt to create poetry out of humble, drab conversations.
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 4 Wins & 8 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
National Board of Review, USA
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
