Joy in the Morning

Year: 1965

Runtime: 103 mins

Language: English

Director: Alex Segal

Drama

Carl Brown and Annie McGairy, children of Irish immigrants whose families know each other from the old country, fall deeply in love. Though Carl’s parents aspire to a better life for their son and look down on Annie’s slum upbringing, she elopes to marry him while he is in college. They face a dean who disapproves of married students, Carl’s angry parents, his jealousy, and Annie’s struggle with her sexuality.

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