The Fantasticks is a 2000 American musical film directed by Michael Ritchie. The screenplay by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt is based on their record-breaking off-Broadway production of the same name, which ran for 17,162 performances. The two also composed the score's songs.
Amos Babcock Bellamy and Ben Hucklebee scheme to get their respective children Luisa and Matt to fall in love. Knowing they will resist their fathers' interference, the two m...
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The Fantasticks is a 2000 American musical film directed by Michael Ritchie. The screenplay by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt is based on their record-breaking off-Broadway production of the same name, which ran for 17,162 performances. The two also composed the score's songs.
Amos Babcock Bellamy and Ben Hucklebee scheme to get their respective children Luisa and Matt to fall in love. Knowing they will resist their fathers' interference, the two men use reverse psychology and fabricate a feud, building a wall between their houses and forbidding their children to speak to each other. When their plan works, they enlist the aid of El Gallo, the proprietor of a traveling carnival, to put an end to their supposed disagreement in a manner which will not reveal their deception.
El Gallo pretends to kidnap Luisa with the help of his troupe, which includes elderly Shakespearean actor Henry Albertson and his mute sidekick Mortimer, and arranges for Matt to rescue her. The couple settles into...
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