Butterflies Are Free

Name: Butterflies Are Free
Released: 1972-7-6
Cast: Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart, Paul Michael Glaser

PG
1h 49m
1972

69%

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A free spirit (Goldie Hawn) helps a timid and intelligent young blind man (Edward Albert) break away from his overprotective mother (Eileen Heckart). Though initially resenting the girl's intrusion into her son's life (which includes a few lessons in sex), Heckart, whose performance won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award® finally realizes that her son needs to become self-reliant.

Director:

Milton Katselas

Cast:

Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart , Paul Michael Glaser

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

69%

Reviews

Los Angeles Free Press

Dick Lochte

A perfect example of schmaltz so cunningly and attractively created that it will move even the stoniest soul.

An interesting film about love, blindness and the inherent bias in both.

Poorly directed, the movie betrays its theatrical origins, but the acting of the two women, Goldie Hawn as the free spirit and Eileen Heckart as the overly protective mother, fighting over the love of a blind youngster, is good.

Hawn, funny and touching, is a delight throughout and Heckart gets a film role that enables her to display versatility.

June 21, 2017

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One Guy's Opinion

Frank Swietek