Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon


Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon is a 1970 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Otto Preminger. The film is based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Marjorie Kellogg.

Plot

Junie Moon is a girl whose face was scarred in a vicious battery acid attack—by her boyfriend Jesse. In an institution, she meets Arthur, who lives with epilepsy, and Warren, a gay wheelchair-bound paraplegic. The trio are disabled but not down, and they decide to live together in an older, rented house, determined to help one another and to prove themselves.

Cast

Unlike Minnelli's previous film, 1969's The Sterile Cuckoo, which was successful artistically and financially, as well as netting Minnelli an Oscar nomination as Best Actress, Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon was a failure with critics and at the box office. Cabaret, Minnelli's next film two years later, won her the Academy Award as Best Actress and established her as a major star. Olive Films announced that it would release Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time on August 16, 2016.

Awards

Otto Preminger was nominated for the Golden Palm at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.