Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

Production date and credits taken from Variety.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; Camera, Gerald Hirschfeld ; production design, Peter Dohanos ; music, Johnny Mandel ; editor, Sidney Katz.; Variety Film Reviews, 10/24/73.; Joanne Woodward, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Sidney, Dori Brenner.; Rita and Harry are well-to-do New Yorkers with two grown children and every reason to be content. But Rita despairs over the triviality of her life and has to come to grips with the loss of her mother. She begins to renew her love for Harry, ultimately declaring peace with her family and herself.

Rita Walden is a depressed middle-aged New Yorker. She settled for second best when she married her ophthalmologist husband, Harry. She is constantly bickering with her mother, her sister Betty and her grown-up daughter Anna. Rita is estranged from her son Bobby, upon whom she is in denial about his homosexual orientation. After Rita's mother dies suddenly, Rita is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.