) double-date, the over-anxious Allan made an embarrassing attempt to be excessively macho to impress Sharon, but ended up appearing bizarre when he demonstrated how o shovel rice into his mouth with chopsticks - he then thought o himself, but seemed to completely misread his date: "She likes me.[A record of sorts, it was thefirstUS feature film to show a bathroom with a toilet bowl.]With a novice actor (James Murray) in the lead role, he film was simply a realistic, bittersweet drama of the existence of an ordinary common and average American (an Everyman prototype embodied in a white-collar worker) trying to make it with his wife in the monolithic big city - but without any maudlin sentimentality, extreme passion, exploitation of romance, or escapist melodrama.This is Ames, Mister." Felson sizes up a table, its cushions, surface, and drop pockets.[A poster acked on the wall behind Charlie advertises a pool exhibition featuring WILLIE MOSCONI - "Co-Holder World""s Best Game.They argued that peace had reigned for 400 years, and that the Dark Lord Sauron had been decisively defeated...because tonight is the real beginning of my life as a young lady of America." She spins backwards, and a rainbow of colors envelopes her - the background behind her urns black, and becomes the spinning shapes at the gym dance.