butterflies are free

Director: milton katselas

Actor: goldie hawn,edward albert,eileen heckart,paul michael glaser

Data Published: Fri Sep 22 1972

Genres: Comedy,Drama,Music,Romance

Key Words: blind man,actress,underwear,peeping tom,hand on breast

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068326/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterflies_Are_Free

Description: Butterflies Are Free is a movie starring Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, and Eileen Heckart. A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.

Plot: In the San Francisco of the 1970s, Don Baker (Edward Albert), who was born blind, has lived all his life with his mother (Eileen Heckart). Don moves out into an apartment on his own, but Don finds himself all alone. He has made a contract that his mother will not come to see him for at least two months. One month has passed. This is when Jill Tanner (Goldie Hawn) moves into an apartment next door to Don. She listens to Don talking to his mother over the phone and turns on the radio. When Don asks her to turn the volume down, she invites herself over for a cup of coffee. They start talking and find each other friendly. Jill does not realize that Don is blind until she sees him dropping his cigarette ash on the table. Jill has never met a blind man before, so she asks all sorts of questions about how Don manages everyday chores. She tells Don that her favorite quote is: "I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies." (From Dickens' "Bleak House"). She takes him out shopping to buy bohemian and free-spirited clothing. Back home, Don makes up a song and starts to sing "Butterflies are Free" on his guitar. They discover they can unlock the door separating their two apartments. Surprising Don with a visit, Mrs. Baker sees that Don has attached himself to Jill. She also encounters them in the apartment partially undressed. She fears that Jill will break Don's heart. She takes Jill out for a lunch and tries to talk her out of Don's life. Jill has strong feelings for Don and tells Mrs. Baker that if there is someone who should get out of Don's life, it is she. Jill later breaks a dinner date at Don's apartment bringing Ralph (Michael Glaser) the director of the play she has auditioned for, and announces, hesitantly, that she will move in with him. Don is heartbroken and asks his mother if he can move back home. She talks him out of it and they finally make peace over their new roles in life. Jill and Don fight over her moving out, and Don tells her she is the one who is disabled. She leaves but returns to Don, and the two reconcile.