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That Cold Day in the Park

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That Cold Day in the Park	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })That Cold Day in the Park is a 1969 Psychological Thriller film directed by Robert Altman, starring Sandy Dennis, Michael Burns, and Susanne Benton.Frances Austen (Dennis) is a thirtysomething woman who lives alone in the huge Vancouver apartment she inherited from her late parents. One day while hosting a dinner party, she spies a 19-year-old boy (Burns) sitting alone in the rain on a bench in the park next to her apartment building. Feeling sorry for him, Frances invites him inside to dry off. He doesn't speak, but she appreciates his company and invites him to spend the night in her guest room. When he awakens the next morning, he discovers that she has locked him in the room.Though he still accepts her hospitality, the Boy finds Frances's behavior odd. At last he manages to pry open a window and leave via the building's fire escape. We learn that he's not mute at all; he's a middle class kid who splits his time between his family's suburban home and a squalid houseboat where his hippie sister Nina (Benton) lives with her American boyfriend.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Unhappy with that situation, the Boy soon returns to Frances and her apartment, only to find that her concern for him is starting to take a disturbing detour.Filmed a few months before MAS*H, this was basically Altman's first "Altman" film, in which he got to use some of his favorite techniques (improvised dialogue, atmosphere becoming more important than story, panning and zooming, complex female characters) for the first time.
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: The pimp in the Red Light District has a huge, long beard that makes him resemble Garth Hudson from The Band.
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
That Cold Day in the Park / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: One of the film's posters has the tagline "How far will a 32 year-old virgin go to possess a 19 year-old boy?" The film itself doesn't quite spell out the age or sexuality of Frances that specifically.
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_26f402a5	type	Trojan Gauntlet
That Cold Day in the Park / int_26f402a5	comment	Trojan Gauntlet: Frances goes to a birth control clinic in anticipation of seducing the Boy. She's profusely uncomfortable, in part because of the frank talk about sex from the other women in the waiting room. When she's asked why she wants birth control, Frances lies and says she's about to get married.
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
That Cold Day in the Park / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: This film, Images and 3 Women form a "character study of disturbed women" trilogy in the Altman filmography.
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_44e64e96	type	Female Gaze
That Cold Day in the Park / int_44e64e96	comment	Female Gaze: One online critic has argued that the depiction of the Boy falls under this trope. Not only does Frances objectify him, but by never revealing his name the film does it as well. Though it was directed by a man, the screenplay was written by a woman (Gillian Freeman).
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_486b0458	type	Draft Dodging
That Cold Day in the Park / int_486b0458	comment	Draft Dodging: Nina's boyfriend Nick is an American who moved to Vancouver to avoid the draft, though you only learn this from a couple snarky remarks the Boy makes about him (calling him "the war hero" and telling him "my country's not at war").
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
That Cold Day in the Park / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Frances has just committed a brutal murder, descended into psychosis, and has trapped the Boy in her apartment. Whatever she has planned for the Boy, things will not end well for him.
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
That Cold Day in the Park / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: When she goes to procure a prostitute for the Boy, everyone assumes Frances is a lesbian (her explanations that it's "for a friend" only increase the suspicion).
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
That Cold Day in the Park / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "I want you to make love to me."
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
That Cold Day in the Park / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: Frances has a peculiar Mid-Atlantic accent that seems out of place for western Canada, except there are some hints that her parents were English (her parents' old friends who attend the dinner party are mostly English). Still, she's played by Nebraska native Sandy Dennis (who did have a reputation for throwing weird little quirks into her acting, though).
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
That Cold Day in the Park / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Dr. Stevenson, an old friend of her parents who Frances socializes with, propositions her, but she turns him down. Frances is this to the Boy as well.
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
That Cold Day in the Park / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Frances, though her villainy doesn't get fully established until the last act.
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
That Cold Day in the Park / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: During their awkward attempt at lovemaking, Sylvia the prostitute keeps asking the Boy "Don't you like Sylvia?"
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
That Cold Day in the Park / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: The Boy though he finally breaks his silence with Frances in a case of OOC Is Serious Business.
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_9013aef6	type	Mask of Sanity
That Cold Day in the Park / int_9013aef6	comment	Mask of Sanity Frances just seems repressed and awkward for most of the movie, but turns psychotic at the end.
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
That Cold Day in the Park / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: Adapted from a 1965 novel of the same name by Peter Miles.
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_b9db28ab	type	Emotionless Girl
That Cold Day in the Park / int_b9db28ab	comment	Emotionless Girl: Frances, for the most part.
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
That Cold Day in the Park / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: The Boy and Nina have a relationship overflowing with this. The scene where she disrobes and gets into a bath while he's sitting nearby, then drags him into the tub with her especially stands out.
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
That Cold Day in the Park / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: We never learn the name of the Boy. The man Frances meets in the Red Light District is just called "The Rounder" in the credits (but in an easy-to-miss moment he says his name is Murph, which would actually make him The Danza as he's played by Michael Murphy).
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
That Cold Day in the Park / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: Frances doesn't seem to have a job and apparently inherited a good chunk of money from her parents.
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
That Cold Day in the Park / int_e303d198	comment	Whole Plot Reference: It's more-or-less a gender-flipped version of The Collector infused with elements of Persona (with Frances as Alma and the Boy as Elisabet).
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_e91cc721	type	In the Style of
That Cold Day in the Park / int_e91cc721	comment	In the Style of...: Roman Polański, Ingmar Bergman and, more distantly, Alfred Hitchcock all clearly influenced Robert Altman here, along with his own Signature Style beginning to emerge.
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_ecbf37ff	type	Disposable Sex Worker
That Cold Day in the Park / int_ecbf37ff	comment	Disposable Sex Worker: Sylvia
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_f247d841	type	Intoxication Ensues
That Cold Day in the Park / int_f247d841	comment	Intoxication Ensues: The Boy gives Frances some cookies his sister made, but she doesn't know they have marijuana in them. It loosens her up a bit.
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_fcd46998	type	Red-Light District
That Cold Day in the Park / int_fcd46998	comment	Red Light District: Frances ventures into one to find a prostitute for the Boy.
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That Cold Day in the Park / int_ff2ceef1	type	Old Maid
That Cold Day in the Park / int_ff2ceef1	comment	Old Maid: Frances doesn't seem particularly old (Sandy Dennis was 31 when she played her), but she's not getting any younger, is unmarried, and extremely lonely.
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