Characters & Themes
The Fantasticks (1964) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1964 · 59 mins · English
- Directed by
- George Schaefer
- Starring
- Stanley Holloway, Bert Lahr, Ricardo Montalban, John Davidson, Susan Watson, Lee Vines
Amos and Ben, both widowers, devise a scheme to bring their children together—Amos’s daughter Luisa and Ben’s son Matt—by feigning a bitter rivalry and forbidding the teens from seeing each other, confident they will rebel. As the pair inevitably fall in love, the fathers arrange a staged kidnapping with a traveling showman, giving Matt a chance to “rescue” Luisa and end the fake feud.
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