Encouraged by her teacher, Tillie undertakes a gamma ray experiment with marigolds that wins a prize at her high school - and also brings on the shattering climax of the play.
One daughter, Ruth, is a pretty but highly strung girl subject to convulsions while the younger daughter, Matilda, plain and almost pathologically shy, has an intuitive gift for science. And vice versa.Frowzy, acid-tongued, supporting herself and her two daughters by taking in a decrepit old boarder, Beatrice Hunsdorfer wreaks a petty vengeance on everybody around her. "Life's been a real bitch to Beatrice Hunsdorfer. Similarly, Matilda has managed to muddle through a grim existence in a dilapidated, debris-ridden house in a lower middle class neighborhood, learning to deal with her embarrassing mother while managing to avoid becoming anything like her, a future for which her sister seems fated.īased on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same title by Paul Zindel. Matilda's science experiment is designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds some die, but others transform into strange but beautiful mutations completely unlike the original plants.
Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects (including one which gives the film its title). Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal.
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer (Joanne Woodward) and her daughters Ruth (Roberta Wallach) and Matilda (Nell Potts) are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand.
Written by Alvin Sargent, based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Paul Zindel. Starring: Joanne Woodward, Roberta Wallach, Nell Potts, Judith Lowry, Richard Venture, David Spielberg, Will Hare. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds 1972 DVD (Region 1 - Playable in North America - The US, Canada, Mexico, etc.) Color.
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