Cactus Flower is a 1969 comedic film directed by Gene Saks and starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, and Goldie Hawn, who won an Oscar for her performance. The screenplay was adapted by I. A. L. Diamond from a Broadway stage play written by Abe Burrows, which in turn was based upon the French play Fleur de cactus. The film was the seventh highest grossing film of 1970. The film was remade in 2005 as Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya, starring Salman Khan, Sushmita Sen and Katrina Kaif, and again, albeit very loosely, in 2011 as Just Go With It, starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston. The film... begins with 21-year-old Toni Simmons trudging across the road at night to post a letter. Subsequently, she returns to her apartment and attempts to gas herself using a "second-hand" stove. Fortunately, her neighbor, Igor Sullivan, smells the gas and rescues her from imminent death using rescue breathing, which evolves into a French kiss after Toni regains consciousness. The movie then moves to the cause of the suicide attempt. Toni's lover Julian, a dentist and philanderer, had previously told Toni that he has a wife and two kids, in order to avoid commitment issues.
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| Release date: | December 16, 1969 |
| Directed by: | Gene Saks |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 103 Minutes |
| Producer: | Mike Frankovich |
| Music by: | Quincy Jones |
| Screenplay by: | I. A. L. Diamond |
| Estimated budget: | $3,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Cactus Flower |
| Genre: | Comedy |