If you loved Blue Sky, try Tom Jones

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Tony Richardson, and they both carry the bittersweet mood tag, and they sit in Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Blue Sky, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Tom Jones is

Here's a film that appears to believe virtue will be rewarded, eventually. A foundling and a landed heiress negotiate 18th-century England's elaborate mating rituals. It seems likely the director was pleased with the end result.

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