Blu-ray, DVD Release: Me, Natalie

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 5, 2020
Price: DVD $13.99, Blu-ray $19.99
Studio: Kino Lorber


Television veteran Fred Coe (A Thousand Clowns) directed this sweet and charming comedy-drama written by A. Martin Zweiback (Grace Quigley) and Stanley Shapiro (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) and featuring a Grammy-nominated score by the great Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther).

From childhood, slightly awkward Brooklyn teenager Natalie Miller (Patty Duke, Valley of the Dolls, The Miracle Worker) never has subscribed to her mother’s (Nancy Marchand, TV’s The Sopranos) determined belief that she will grow up to be pretty. Her best friend Betty (Deborah Winters, Kotch) is a knockout gorgeous blonde with boyfriends, which further depresses her. Then she meets handsome David Harris (James Farentino, The War Lord), who finally convinces her that she’s a worthwhile human being and not the ugly duckling she always imagined herself to be.

Patty Duke won the 1970 Golden Globe for Best Actress – Comedy or Musical for her performance in Me, Natalie, which also features Martin Balsam (12 Angry Men), Elsa Lanchester (The Spiral Staicase), Bob Balaban (Ghost World) and a debuting Al Pacino (Danny Collins) in the cast.

 

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.