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Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Alan J. Pakula. It is often categorized as a drama, but contains many comic elements. Maggie Smith and Timothy Bottoms star.
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing: Directed by Alan J. Pakula. With Maggie Smith, Timothy Bottoms, Don Jaime de Mora y Aragón, Emiliano Redondo. American Walter Elbertson (Timothy Bottoms), in his late teens, is feeling lost within his family of overachievers.
Charles Baxter. Dr. Elbertson. Page 1 of 4, 8 total items. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. Walter Elbertson (Timothy Bottoms), the handsome and restless son of an American doctor...
Thirtysomething Englishwoman Lila Fisher (Dame Maggie Smith) is emotionally repressed. The two meet on their respective vacations in Spain when, on the spur of the moment, Walter decides to ditch his overly-regimented cycling-tour group and join the bus tour-group of which Lila is a member.
While bicycling through the Spanish countryside, Walter, the aimless young son of a doctor, makes the acquaintance of proper, middle-aged, clumsy and secretive Lila. He falls in love with her, but she is resistant.
A bittersweet romantic comedy, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973) tells the unlikely love story of Lila (Maggie Smith), a lonely British spinster in her late 30s who is on a bus tour of Spain, and Walter (Timothy Bottoms), an 18-year-old American screw-up who ends up traveling with her.
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