Perfect cast and a good story

Highly Overrated But Still Good

it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

If you're looking for a perfectly dated view of premarital sex, you'll be hard-pressed to find another gem like Sunday in New York. Jane Fonda, in a totally adorable role, plays a conflicted "beginner". She's refused to sleep with her boyfriend, Robert Culp, and in her confusion, seeks refuge with her airline pilot brother, Cliff Robertson. Cliff assures her that being a virgin isn't a bad thing and that he himself doesn't sleep around. Of course, he's desperately trying to sleep with his girlfriend, Jo Morrow, and hides that from Jane. To top it all off, Jane meets Rod Taylor and decides to pretend she's more experienced than she actually is.Adapted from Norman Krasna's hit Broadway play, this 1960s romantic comedy is just that: romantic and hilarious. Jane's comic timing is always great. "In movies, this is where the screen usually goes dark," she says when Rod's kisses make it clear he wants to take things further. When he finally learns she's a virgin, he slams on the brakes. He doesn't want to be responsible for ruining her reputation, and Jane finds his reasoning absurd. He wouldn't have any hesitation in sleeping with her if, say, in a week's time she'd already had a lover. "Call me next week!" she shouts, frustrated that her innocence is off-putting.It's really a very cute movie, but women's libbers out there will probably hate it. You're better off watching The Electric Horseman or The China Syndrome; Jane is in a strong, feminist role in those movies. In Sunday in New York, she's cute as a button, but not the most liberated tool in the shed. I loved her in this one, and found her just as visually and comically adorable as she was in Barefoot in the Park.

This is a very clever movie and one of the best of the sixties. The point of the movie is that it was a period piece...that was the whole idea. People knew the world was changing. Sorry no cell phones. So ignore the reviews that suggest that this is somehow a problem. It is a fun, definitely not serious movie.Jane Fonda in perhaps her best acting role and probably the same can be said for Rod Taylor. Cliff Robertson is very funny and he is maybe the best part of it. Robert Culp does a stand up job playing the poor guy who is bound to get dumped. You know it is going to happen, but you still play along.

Sunday In New York has Jane Fonda in her ingénue days as a kid from Albany visiting New York to see big brother Cliff Robertson who looks like he lives pretty good on the Upper East Side of Manhattan as an airline pilot. She's just broken up with Robert Culp who is from a rich family of movers and shakers in Albany and the reason she confides to Robertson is that Culp wants a little sample of marriage life and Jane is determined to remain virginal. At her age that wears better than on Doris Day.So when Robertson gets a call from the airlines which is also interrupting his social life with Jo Morrow that duty calls, Fonda is left to her own devices in that swank Manhattan apartment. So on a Fifth Avenue bus which back in the day cost 15 cents to ride she meets Rod Taylor and the two of them are starting to get serious. Yes it did cost only 15 cents to ride a bus in New York City, I well remember it.The usual complications arise from a very typical early Sixties sex comedy where as I said Fonda is poaching on Doris Day territory. Taylor is quite the romantic figure and Culp gives an interesting performance as a man really quite taken with himself.Sunday In New York was adapted by Norman Krasna from his own successful Broadway play that ran for 188 performances in the 1961-62 season. Fonda's role got a Tony Award for Pat Stanley whom I saw on Broadway in Fiorello and the Rod Taylor part was played by future movie superstar Robert Redford who won an award from Theater World. Krasna managed successfully to transfer Sunday In New York to the big screen and take it from the Robertson apartment where the entire play takes place on stage.Sunday In New York is an interesting look at our American mores from the Kennedy years and could probably be remade today with a little more frankness.

Saw this picture when it first came out (I was 16). NY looked great, Apartment in SNY still cool today 40 + years later! Have original soundtrack album with fantastic Peter Nero score, too bad no Mel Tormé swinging arrangement of title song on this album. At the 'hip' Club Nero, Peter plays song 'HELLO' which is also sung by someone in his combo, CANNOT find this performer's name or recording ANYWHERE?? Anyone out there know? BTW A nice trip back to great looking NY, and the morals of a sweeter gentler time...It's a great trip back to see IDLEWILD airport before it changed to ''KENNEDY''.Imagine the surprise of younger people seeing passengers boarding planes with no security, a little bit like stepping in to a first class restaurant!Must see flick!