“[Daisy Miller is] Bogdanovich’s fifth nearly perfect film in a row and every bit the equal of the more widely beloved works that preceded it... Simultaneously Bogdanovich’s gentlest film and his most devastating.”
Cybill Shepherd stars as the eponymous Daisy Miller, a beautiful, flirtatious, nouveau riche young American visiting a Swiss spa with her nervously timid, talkative mother (Cloris Leachman) and spoiled, xenophobic younger brother Randolph (James McMurtry). There she meets upper class expatriate American Frederick Winterbourne (Barry Brown), who decides not to heed the warnings about Daisy's reckless ways with men and duly embarks upon a wooing campaign... Unfairly derided upon its release, Daisy Miller has since enjoyed a critical reappraisal and deserves a wider audience.