Main Cast: Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel, Burr de Benning, Sandy Baron
Release Year: 1968
Country: US
Run Time: 114 minutes
Plot
Sarah Deever (Sandy Dennis) is an idealistic young woman living in Brooklyn. Her altruistic nature finds her taking in visitors for a month at a time to help them in their time of need. Charlie Blake (Anthony Newley) is her latest reclamation project, a cardboard-box factory worker and owner of an annoyingly loud alarm on his wristwatch. Charlie gains entrance to her apartment and eventually her heart when he reveals he always wanted to be a poet. Sarah seeks to overcome her own problems by helping those in need, but her need for Charlie's love soon supersedes her initial intentions. He is allowed to stay for the month of November as she adheres to her traditional deadline on guests. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
John J. Lloyd - Art Director, John Robert Lloyd - Art Director, Ann Roth - Costume Designer, Fred Gammon - First Assistant Director, Robert Ellis Miller - Director, James T. Heckert - Editor, Michel Legrand - Composer (Music Score), Leslie Bricusse - Songwriter, Anthony Newley - Songwriter, Gordon Bau - Makeup, Daniel L. Fapp - Cinematographer, Jerry Gershwin - Producer, Elliott Kastner - Producer, Ralph S. Hurst - Set Designer, Stan Jones - Sound/Sound Designer, Herman Raucher - Screenwriter
Sweet November is a romanticdrama originally released in 1968 and written by Herman Raucher. A remake of the original was released in 2001 under the same name. The film had originally been written as a stage play by Raucher, but before it was even performed, Universal Pictures got wind of the project and paid Raucher $100,000 USD (or the modern equivalent of $583,000) to stop work on the play and adapt it as a screenplay.[1]
On March 22, 2009 the film was released on DVD for the first time. Warner Brothers made the DVD available exclusively on their website.[citation needed]
Charlie Blake is a fanatical business man. He meets Sara, a woman very different from anyone else he has ever met. She beguiles him and convinces him to spend a month with her on the promise that she will change his life around.
The relationship builds between the two but it cannot last — Sara is dying and does not want to burden anybody as her condition declines. In an emotional end to the story she walks away from the relationship but her spirit has forever changed Charlie Blake.
