Made after years of directing television and industrial films and just one year before his commercial breakthrough with M*A*S*H Robert Altmans underrated psychosexual chiller That Cold Day in the Park, arguably the first true Altman film, is a stylish harbinger of the themes that would resonate through many of the director's later masterpieces such as Images and 3 Women. On a cold and rainy day, Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis, Academy Award winner for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), a reclusive virgin sheltered from the sexual revolution happening outside her door, suddenly becomes obsessed with an enigmatic 19 year-old boy she sees sitting on a park bench. Inviting him into her apartment to be bathed and fed, Frances repressed fantasies soon violently boil over into a dangerous and disturbing desire to keep the boy in her clutches no matter what. Adapted from Richard Miles novel by British author Gillian Freeman (The Leather Boys), Altman expertly turns the screws in this suspenseful