I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
(1977)
Overview
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Director
Anthony Page
Writers
Gavin Lambert, Lewis John Carlino, Joanne Greenberg
Top Billed
Kathleen Quinlan
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CinemaSerf
⭐ 7/10October 18, 2025
Kathleen Quinlan delivers powerfully here as the disturbed “Deborah” who has been institutionalised by her therapist “Dr. Fried” (Bibi Andersson). She’s delusional and walks a fairly fine line between a reality in which she doesn’t feel pain and a fantasy land with it’s own language that she must, at all costs, keep secret. Once ensconced, she finds herself staring at a stark world where her humanity is very much subsumed into a violent, noisy an… read the rest.
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$3,000,000
Revenue
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