(Academy Award Winner for Best Screenplay; also nominated for Best Actress/Natalie Wood) Transitioning to a more complex, adult role after her success as a child star, Natalie Wood is Deanie, a teenager trying to do what's right in her 1920s Kansas town, but the emotions she shares with boyfriend Bud (Warren Beatty) are too strong. Bud will reluctantly go to Yale, but Deanie will be institutionalized; Elia Kazan's hard-hitting 1961 drama follows the couple's forking paths, wondering if true happiness is possible and whether love can endure against such odds.