Picnic Summary
Director: Ivan Passer
Originally staged on Broadway in 1953 and filmed two years later, William_Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning romantic drama +Picnic went before the cameras a second time in 2000 as a made-for-TV movie. Josh_Brolin stars as Hal Carter, a handsome and impecunious drifter who shows up in a tranquil Kansas town to pay a visit to his wealthy pal Alan Benson. Hal's arrival coincides with the town's upcoming Labor Day festivities, so naturally he is invited to stay a while. Alan soon regrets welcoming Hal into his community when the charismatic drifter falls in love with Alan's fianc
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