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| | :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Picnic (xhtml) |
 | | Director Joshua Logan, among the worst filmmakers of his time, spends so much footage on the picnic, you'd think this was a documentary: There are crying babies, laughing babies, frowning babies, three-legged races, pie-eating competitions, balloon drops, concerts and boy-girl contests. |
 | | All he had on was a shield.'' Meanwhile, the Rosalind Russell character gets drunk and hysterically demands that her old coot marry her. |
 | | The actual subject of ``Picnic'' is the utter irrelevance of women in that place and that time, unless they were young and pretty and not too smart. |
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