Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990)

Three short stories, 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, but 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 doesn't quite know what she wants.

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Summary Details
Running Time1 hr 23 min
GenresDrama Romance
FilmmakersRole
Frederic Raphael Director
Tony Richardson Director
Ken Russell Director
Frederic Raphael Writer
Mary McCarthy Writer
Valerie Curtin Writer
Dorothy Parker Writer
Joan Didion Writer
John Gregory Dunne Writer
Ernest Hemingway Writer
Kit Golden Writer
David Brown Producer
William S. Gilmore Producer
Marvin Hamlisch Composer
Ernest Day Cinematographer
Billy Williams Cinematographer
Steve Yaconelli Cinematographer
John Jympson Editor
Robert K. Lambert Editor
Timian Alsaker Production Designer
John Graysmark Production Designer
CastRole
Melanie Griffith
Hadley (segment "Hills Like White Elephants")
James Woods
Robert (segment "Hills Like White Elephants")
Carmen Segarra
Bar Maid (segment "Hills Like White Elephants")
Felipe García Vélez
Telegraph Operator (segment "Hills Like White Elephants")