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Cactus Flower (1969)

★ 7.2 · 247 ratings on TMDB

The prickly stage success that convulsed audiences around the world... with all its barbed wit and the sharpest comedy cast of the year!

Cactus Flower poster★ 7.2

A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.

DirectorGene Saks
CastEve Bruce, Goldie Hawn, Ingrid Bergman, Irene Hervey, Irwin Charone, Jack Weston
GenresComedy, Romance
The emergence reading

Cactus Flower keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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