

Tender Is the Night
1920s, the French Riviera: wealthy expatriate Nicole Warren's mental illness strains her marriage to psychiatrist Dick. A young American actress named Rosemary Hoyt arrives and is drawn into their circle, becoming romantically involved with the older, married Dick and disrupting the fragile balance of the group. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to another sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them all.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $3.9M
- Box office
- $1.3M
- Language
- English
- adultery
- based on novel or book
- american dream
- ambition
- playboy
- french riviera
- nervous breakdown
- expatriate
- psychiatry
- mental health
- 1920s
- actress
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United StatesUS
- Theatrical19 Jan 1962
United KingdomGB
- PremiereCarlton Haymarket8 Feb 1962
- TheatricalRated A9 Feb 1962
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Tender Is the Night was released on 19 January 1962.
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1- C6/10
CinemaSerf
5/1/2026
F. Scott Fitzgerald did run a bit to language with his writing and this all-too literal adaptation suffers a bit from a lack of pruning. Consequently, we have a great deal of dialogue and perhaps not enough passion from a cast who seem curiously disconnected from the story. That plot revolves around some gradually evolving marital dysfunction which peppered with some flashbacks introduces us to "Nicole" (Jennifer Jon…
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