**Part of the Best Picture Project**

Though notably lightweight, this film scripted by Paddy Chayefsky, well acted by its cast with an extremely likable performance by Ernest Borgnine, and assured direction by Delbert Mann is a gift from the heavens in the year of 1955. Compared to all the other big CinemaScope films, this one feels more intimate, more welcoming, and as a result, more focused.

God damn I needed this.

Tender. Tender as fuck portrait of loneliness. One of the tenderest things I've laid eyes on in a good long while. A love story about adults made for adults. No pretty people here. They sure don't make 'em like they used to. Seriously, I'd kill for 10 of these films a year coming from studios. Instead... well... we know what we get. We get what we deserve. Excuse me, I'm gonna go kill myself.

Marty is a good film but it's far from great. I'm not really sure how it won the Best Picture Oscar (and became the first American film to win the Palm d'Or at Cannes) because there's nothing special about it. Borgnine does a convincing job in the lead role, as a mid-30's bachelor who works as a butcher and still lives with his mother. Borgnine plays Marty as sincere and genuine, and he's all too aware of his non-marital status. The story builds to the point that you really want Marty to find someone and, when he finally does and no one likes her because she isn't beautiful, we still root for a happy ending for the couple. A good watch, but, like I said, nothing too special.

Also, I find it sad that Borgnine passed away today, the day after I watched his Oscar-winning performance, may he rest in peace.

Marty is in his mid-30s, he's a socially-inept Italian-American butcher who lives with his mother. He meets a shy teacher and spends a pleasant evening with her, but his mother and friends (all of whom influence him strongly) take against her.
'Marty' was very much of its time, with the pressures on those fairly young to tie themselves up in marriage in their twenties. I don't believe that modern thirtysomethings would behave in the way that Marty and his friends did, and whilst I'd like to think that they wouldn't talk about unattractive women as 'dogs' now I'm pretty sure that there are sections of the community that still would. It would have been interesting to see two unattractive actors in he leading roles as if they're unattractive then God help me, but Hollywood has never been very good at using ordinary looking people in its films - that much will doesn't look likely to change any time soon.

oscar winner in 1955 but I just don't see it. it probably didn't endure the test of time. imho, it's no better than some of judd apatow's stuff. it's like freaking knocked up getting an oscar in this day and age. even ernest borgnine's presence couldn't do anything for this flick.

Very good film. MARTY is simple, authentic, sweet, and very moving. Paddy Chayefsky script is strong, and touching. Delbert Mann's direction is very basic, with a lot of static shots...yet he was smart, and the let story play itself out with any cinematic distractions. The late great Ernest Borgnine is fantastic as the heavy set "ugly" butcher who finds love for the first time. The rest of the cast is also great...Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell, and Esther Minciotti give stand-out performances. Can't believe I've gone all these years without seeing it.

@Camdun_Roar: Or how overbearing Italian-Catholic mothers try to ruin their son's lives. Nice but I don't know how this won best picture. 6/10

Love vs Lonely. Wifey vs Mother-in-laws.

Best picture? Nah. Good watch? Yes.

How different this film would've been if Ernest Borgnine had been given his usually requisite horse and gun with which to act every scene.

**Part of the Best Picture Project**

Though notably lightweight, this film scripted by Paddy Chayefsky, well acted by its cast with an extremely likable performance by Ernest Borgnine, and assured direction by Delbert Mann is a gift from the heavens in the year of 1955. Compared to all the other big CinemaScope films, this one feels more intimate, more welcoming, and as a result, more focused.

God damn I needed this.

A well-written and well-acted tale about an overweight man finding love in New York. Inoffensive and touching.

Tender. Tender as fuck portrait of loneliness. One of the tenderest things I've laid eyes on in a good long while. A love story about adults made for adults. No pretty people here. They sure don't make 'em like they used to. Seriously, I'd kill for 10 of these films a year coming from studios. Instead... well... we know what we get. We get what we deserve. Excuse me, I'm gonna go kill myself.

32. Simpática y entretenida. La pasé bien mientras las veía, creo que el problema es que quiere abordar un montón de temas personales, familiares y sociales con muy poco espacio para desarrollarlos. Aunque creo que aguanta y logra su objetivo.

http://didyouseethatone.com/2013/01/20/marty/

About as good as the television play. While Chayefsky's story certainly holds emotional truth, it's almost too well put together. That is, I don't remember the writing in the original being this obvious. Maybe it was; I'm not sure. Borgnine carries the movie very well in the lead role. Maybe it's just me but, curiously, Marty's mother's thick accent reminded me of Jar Jar Binks's - which was weird.