I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) Reviews & Ratings

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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden reviews

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden holds a 5.9/10 average from 41 TMDB ratings.

Kathleen Quinlan delivers powerfully here as the disturbed “Deborah” who has been institutionalised by her therapist “Dr. Fried” (Bibi Andersson). She’s delusional and walks a fairly fine line between a reality in which she doesn’t feel pain and a fantasy land with it’s own language that she must, at all costs, keep secret. Once ensconced, she finds herself staring at a stark world where her humanity is very much su…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

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