Summer of Jane Bracket #2: "The Chapman Report" v. "Period of Adjustment"

Witchcraft. Jazz musicians. Doctors not believing women. A fur coat. Slut shaming. Excessive misogyny. Why, it feels like 1962 was just yesterday!

The Janesploitation Award this week goes to the ENTIRETY of both these exhausting, hilarious, devastating, terrible films.

​(TW: rape, gang rape, a nihilistic reminder that nothing has changed for women since the 1960s, and these movies are ONLY focusing on the rich white ones!)
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The Chapman Report, ​1962

Dir: George Cukor
Screenplay: Gene Allen, Grant Stuart, Don Mankiewicz, & Wyatt Cooper
Novel: Irving Wallace
Starring: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom, & Glynis Johns
Synopsis: "Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal lives of four women with four separate sexual hangups, ranging from frigidity to nymphomania."
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Period of Adjustment, 1962

Dir: George Roy Hill
Screenplay: Isobel Lennart
Play: Tennessee Williams
Starring: Anthony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, & Lois Nettleton 
Synopsis: "A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own."
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