
Never Rarely Sometimes Always(2020)
A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.


“There is a moment - a long moment - when everything is risked with the proper stranger”
Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz musician named Rocky Papasano. When Angie becomes pregnant, she tracks down Rocky hoping he'll pay for her abortion.

Natalie Wood
Angie Rossini

Steve McQueen
Rocky Papasano

Edie Adams
Barbie

Herschel Bernardi
Dominick Rossini

Anne Hegira
Beetie

Harvey Lembeck
Julio Rossini
Mario Badolati
Elio Papasano
Penny Santon
Mama Rossini
Elena Karam
The Woman

Virginia Vincent
Anna
Love with the Proper Stranger is a comedy, drama, romance film released in 1963 exploring themes of new york city, italian american, jazz singer or musician, unwanted pregnancy, abortion. Directed by Robert Mulligan, it stars Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams. Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz musician named Rocky Papasano. When Angie becomes pregnant, she tracks down Rocky hoping he'll pay for her abortion.
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