| -- and the film has to oversimplify its characters to make its points | Also note the sumptuous midcentury interiors -- whether the happy couple ends up living in Wyman's suburban mansion or Hudson's renovated barn, I want to live in them both |
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| Her circle of friends are surprised that she is seeing such a younger man and she might be prepared to overlook that - Ron certainly doesn't care about the differences in their ages - but when her son and daughter vehemently object, she decides to sacrifice her own feelings for their happiness | e which party is financially responsible for the electricity consumption |
She's been leading a quiet life since her husband died, socializing with a small circle of friends.
| She develops a friendship with Ron Kirby who owns his own nursery and comes every spring and fall to trim her trees | True, the central romance isn't always convincing -- what does Ron see in Carrie, anyway? Carrie's daughter, a social-working bobby-soxer who quotes Freud and wears unflattering glasses, is meant to be something of a joke until she sheds some feminine tears and suddenly becomes sympathetic ; while Carrie's older suitor, underplayed by Conrad Nagel, is looked on as less than a desirable man simply because he limits himself to one drink |
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| Her friend Sara Warren encourages her to get a television set to keep her company but she doesn't want that either | Too, there's an impossibly melodramatic third act, where the circumstances of Ron's accident are howlingly implausible |
Her children no longer live with her full-time but come home every weekend.
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