I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

This film has been described as being charming, and it is to a point. There is also a welcome (if unintentional) quaintness to it, considering that it was shot between June and October 1963, before Beatlemania and the assassination of President Kennedy. By the time of the film's release, those social and political events had changed the world markedly.Although the friendship between the girls starts out fresh and interesting, it progressively becomes silly and tiresome, with much energy waisted on contrived vignettes that don't lead anywhere. Their dynamic serves as a template for later and better girl-buddy pictures like "Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows" and "The Trouble With Angels"While on the subject of waisted, the then red-hot Peter Sellers seems painfully underutilized here. Ditto for the wonderfully ditsy Paula Prentiss. I couldn't help but wonder if his presence here was dictated only because he 'owed' someone a picture. The one glowing exception is the fantastic concert segment which is hysterically funny in its droll subtlety and its send-up of avant garde artistic expression. His other potentially funny scenes, especially those with Prentis, come off like jokes without punch lines. The remaining adult cast, featuring Angela Lansbury among others, is good in its own competent way.One great unexpected joy of the film was its many scenes of a beautiful and mostly vacant New York City. Having never lived there and seldom visited, this viewer still was very taken by the evocative cityscapes which wonderfully saturate this film. For me, this is where the real charm of the film comes through.

This movie hasn't got that good of a rating. So I don't think it was really that good even when it was released. But with time it has really dated making it unwatchable. I couldn't even understand what we were supposed to like about the movie or where we were supposed to laugh.It is about two fourteen year old girls who are friends. One of them develops a crush on an mature guy, and they start following him. They meet him once. Then they meet him again. Then they meet him again. I know it is kind of repetitive, but so was the movie.Maybe it will be somewhat liked by the people of that time, but things have changed too much now. Give this one a miss.

Two teenage girls stalk a pianist in "The World of Henry Orient," a 1964 film starring Peter Sellars, Angela Lansbury, Phyllis Thaxter, Tom Bosley, Paula Prentiss, Merrie Spaeth and Tippy Walker.Spaeth and Walker are the 14-year-old teens, and the writing for them isn't good - it's PERFECT, capturing what it's like to be that age and having your first crush. The object of their affections is vain, paranoid Henry Orient (Peter Sellars) a pianist who apparently specializes in somewhat ugly modern music whom the girls see kissing his married girlfriend (Prentiss) in the park. When they see him again, he recognizes them and becomes unnerved. Then they attend a concert -- he sees them from the stage and nearly goes into orbit. After that, the girls read all they can about him and start staking out his apartment and restaurants he frequents.The Prentiss character, Stella, lives in fear of her husband finding out about her non-affair - she refuses to go to Orient's apartment, and whenever she acquiesces, she ends up running out of the back of the restaurant while he's getting a cab. Finally Henry gets her to his place. He spots the girls outside, and Stella becomes convinced that her husband has hired two child detectives. The kids have told a storekeeper next to their stalking stoop that they're waiting for their mother, Jayne Mansfield, who has been kidnapped. It goes from there - and it's HILARIOUS.The teens are sensational, giggly, wildly imaginative and creative, swooning, and faking terminal illness and other events on the street as they race all over the gloriously photographed New York City. Val comes from a super-rich family and neglectful parents, played by the glamorous Angela Lansbury and Tom Bosley as her quiet, hard-working husband. Her story, despite all the humor, is a poignant one.Sellars is fantastic, sporting an odd accent, and using the most subtle of expressions and body language to show what he's thinking. Lansbury is terrific and looks great, Bosley is excellent, and Prentiss is a riot as a neurotic mess.But the young girls - what memories they brought back of fantasy, crushes, wild laughter, pranks, and complete devastation. Phenomenal direction by George Roy Hill, gorgeous cinematography, great music. A no-miss if you want to recapture days of record albums, sitting on your bedroom floor with your friends, scrapbooks dedicated to the love of your life, hating teachers, and complete, uninhibited, euphoric daring.

I've been watching this film on television over many years and I'm still struck by the unusually frank take on the parent child relationship that's shown here. Instead of the claptrap that all mothers love their children, this film shows a mother who really considers her daughter to be an inconvenience who's hindering her social life. Moreover this film shows a girl facing a relatively tough situation and overcoming it quite well. That's not shown too often. While this film is easily seen as a cutesy early 1960s fluff piece, I really think its not-too extreme situation is a good lesson for adolescent kids, and especially for girls.