With Martha Scott as Adelaide, the ballet company's director. DeeDee's joy for her daughter Emilia's triumphant New York debut is short-lived-- DeeDee's longterm friend and rival, Emma, manages to steal DeeDee's moment as a proud mother. But Emma's own triumph is short-lived as well. This scene is a prelude to Bancroft's and MacLaine's "newts and hoptoads" scene at the bar: • "Newts and hoptoads" -...
Criticized by some as a soap opera, The Turning Point is an agreeably rambling entertainment with a coolly simmering MacLaine as DeeDee and a magnificent Bancroft as Emma. When it was released in 1977, it was, with "Julia" and a couple of other films, one of a highly publicized, if short-lived wave of female "buddy" pictures. It was nominated for 14 Academy Awards (although it didn't win any), including Best Actress nominations for both Bancroft and MacLaine in a highly competitive year. Screenplay by Arthur Laurents, directed by Herbert Ross.
Read more about Bancroft's performance at bancroftturning.blogspot.com.
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