Three Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young married couple stop for a drink on a Sunday morning in Manhattan, and the conversation turns to the husband's fidelity. "The Monument" centers on the conflict between a popular bartender with a following in an upscale Irish bar in 1938 Manhattan and its owner, who is determined to introduce a more economical whiskey in the establishment over the barkeep's objections. In "The Man Who Married a French Wife" the influential American husband of a French woman is asked by her former lover, a former resistance fighter, to help him escape the country.
Hope Springs
2012
6.3/10
Faces
1968
7.1/10
The Pumpkin Eater
1964
6.6/10
Take This Waltz
2011
6.4/10
Strangers When We Meet
1960
6.2/10
Shirley
2020
6.1/10
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942
7.3/10
Nothing in Common
1986
5.8/10
Deep Water
2022
5.8/10
Heartburn
1986
6.0/10
5 Flights Up
2014
6.0/10
Why Did I Get Married?
2007
6.5/10
Author! Author!
1982
5.9/10
She's Having a Baby
1988
5.9/10
Two for the Road
1967
7.0/10
Effie Gray
2014
5.9/10
The One I Love
2014
6.9/10
Not Easily Broken
2009
6.3/10
The Intervention
2016
5.9/10
Before We Go
2014
6.7/10
Inland Empire
2006
7/10
