Susan Ward Movie:

Ginger in the Morning [Region 2] Reviews:
3 an a half stars...
2008-01-26 - well to say everything an anything az09...covers it but technically thumbs 3an a half stars as compared to errol flynn classic never say good buy ...seems on a similar parr nice ending slightly unfaired but who cared ...doing a magnamic study in comparison male an a female acting stoogeologized somewhat systematically theatricalized shdfh....ks...

Bland At Best...
2005-09-01 - This movie is like spending time with four people you're not really crazy about, but you're stuck with them for the time being, & can't wait to get away. A middle aged man (with a nice chest) going through a mid-life crisis, a hippy/free spirit, a loud, obnoxious boozehound/blowhard, & an annoying housewife (circa early 1970's). The film contains some simple yet enjoyable music from Sissy Spacek pre-"Coal Miner's Daughter".

ANOTHER MIDDLE-AGED MAN FALLS IN LOVE WITH A YOUNG WOMAN
2005-04-03 - Joe Maroney (Monte Markham), divorced for three months, is driving in New Mexico from Albuquerque to his home in Santa Fe when he picks up a hitchhiking free spirit, Ginger Brown, played by Sissy Spacek, and the two subsequently become romantically absorbed with each other as New Year's Eve nears, whereupon Joe's former Army comrade Charley (Mark Miller) and, coincidentally, Charley's former wife Sugar (Susan Oliver) join them with many complications as the product. Hoydenish Spacek is appealing and brings life to scriptor/producer Miller's lines, but bland Markham's metabolic rate seems to be constant throughout and Oliver, a talented actress, is given loathsome dialogue and exaggerates it, without doubt to her satisfaction, while the direction is listless and the screenplay lacks imagination, with only Spacek's reactions, although not always precisely matching her circumstances, shining through this frippery.



I Love Sissy, but...
2004-07-17 - I am a great fan of Sissy Spacek but I found this movie to be a disappointment. The idea behind the movie is nothing new but with Sissy, I thought it would be special. Markham is terrible, so unconvincing, the dialogue is bland and the introduction of Markham's friend is nothing more than a diversion from what should have been more development of the relationship between Sissy and Markham, I guess the writers didn't know how to handle that. Sissy is, as always, a delight to watch and with better support from a co-star and better dialogue, her performance would have been much better. She had to have known she was trying to carry a lame story all by herself. The ending was pure Hollywood sappiness. Why in the world would anyone think the 2 of them would make it as a couple?

pleasant TV movie
2003-08-26 - This has the look of a TV movie, shot in 1972 (not 1973) before Sissy Spacek hit it big with BADLANDS and CARRIE.

The story is a common male fantasy. A stuffed-shirt middle-aged man encounters a young hippie free spirit (Sissy Spacek). Naturally, she teaches him to open up, be loose, have fun. He's attracted to her, but also resists her affections, and thus hurts her. But in the end, he realizes how wonderful she is, begs forgiveness, and it looks like they might stay together.

Other films in this genre include BREEZY (with Kay Lenz as the hippie free spirit girl, and William Holden as the middle aged guy), and I LOVE YOU ALICE B. TOKLAS (with Peter Sellers as the middle-aged man).

GINGER IN THE MORNING is a pleasant TV movie, rooted in its time. Although flower children were on the wane by 1972, TV usually comes late to trends, trailing films. (The film credits state a 1972 copyright date, not 1973.)