Rex Harrison and Richard Burton certainly perfected their parts as aging frustrated homosexuals in this 1969 movie. Correction, Harrison claims to be bisexual as he was supposedly married.
Life has not been all that great to our heroes in this film. There is built in frustration, anger and the two cope with two haggard mothers, Burton's at home and Harrison's in an institution.
Burton owns the barber shop downstairs and Harrison works with him. Theirs has become an absolutely dull life, where they talk about their past accomplishments as life just seems to be passing them by.
Even when Harrison brings in another guy to have a fling with, nothing really occurs.
Of course, by the end, the two guys realize they need each other but did the audience need each of them?
Life has not been all that great to our heroes in this film. There is built in frustration, anger and the two cope with two haggard mothers, Burton's at home and Harrison's in an institution.
Burton owns the barber shop downstairs and Harrison works with him. Theirs has become an absolutely dull life, where they talk about their past accomplishments as life just seems to be passing them by.
Even when Harrison brings in another guy to have a fling with, nothing really occurs.
Of course, by the end, the two guys realize they need each other but did the audience need each of them?