Film

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

5.619731h 33mPGDrama

Age rating: PG
Director: Gilbert Cates
Year: 1973

Beautiful. Frigid. She is Called a Snow Queen.

Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son.

Top cast

Joanne Woodward

Rita Walden

Martin Balsam

Harry Walden

Sylvia Sidney

Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother

Tresa Hughes

Betty Goody

Dori Brenner

Anna

Ron Richards

Bobby Walden

Win Forman

Fred

Nancy Andrews

Mrs. Hungerford

Helen Ludlam

Grandmother

Jill Goldston

Underground Passanger (uncredited)

Directed by

Gilbert Cates

Written by

Stewart Stern

Produced by

Gilbert Cates, Jack Brodsky