4/10
Where's the Joy? More Like Mourning of A Hasty Marriage **
21 September 2009
Warning: Spoilers
This awful film deals with the trials and tribulations of a young couple who decide to get married despite the disapproving attitude of their parents.

Richard Chamberlain is appealing as the young law student but Yvette Mimieux proves that she was no actress. She turns in a whining performance.

The real surprise here is Arthur Kennedy. As Chamberlain's father, he steadily holds on to his past traditions but never misses an opportunity to hurt his daughter-in-law.

As a married couple, their love making in the warehouse where Chamberlain works in the evening was an absolute enigma to me.

Everything is supposed to tie up nicely when Mrs. Brown (Yvette) becomes pregnant. The ending is that cheering on to a football team in that with the arrival of the baby, they shall persevere. The parents will accept the marriage, Karl (Richard) will graduate from law school and the three can drive away as Chamberlain sings Joy in the Morning to his baby son.

What hogwash!
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