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DVD On Golden Pond (Special Edition)
Writer Ernest Thompson, who came up with the original stage play of On Golden Pond and adapted it for film, is lucky to have two giants of the screen give dignity and breadth to his sometimes trite dialogue. Henry Fonda, in his last role, plays a prickly English professor at the disagreeable age of 80. Visiting his summer house by a Maine lake with his wife (Katharine Hepburn), the old man forges an unlikely bond with a lonely boy, comes to terms with his daughter (Jane Fonda), and suffers disorienting effects of mild dementia. Even playing a tired old man, Fonda is an absolute lion of a movie star, and Hepburn brings her special spirit to the part of his worried bride. The onscreen relationship between Henry and Jane Fonda naturally makes one think about their much-discussed difficulties offscreen, but that's a side benefit in a movie that is really just a celebration of simple human decency. Directed by Mark Rydell (Harry and Walter Go to New York). --Tom Keogh
On Golden Pond is a really good movie, it is mostly a drama though has some funny moments too especially the comments that Henry Fonda's grumpy character makes. Besides the plot, the the outdoor scenes on the lake are really beautiful and the movie also has wonderful music and I highly recommend this movie!
A Very Good Movie!.
On Golden Pond is a really good movie, it is mostly a drama though has some funny moments too especially the comments that Henry Fonda's grumpy character makes. Besides the plot, the the outdoor scenes on the lake are really beautiful and the movie also has wonderful music and I highly recommend this movie!
A brief comment
When this movie came out, it made an impressive showing at the Academy Awards and immediately passed into the stuff of Hollywood legend and cinematic history. I only just saw it again recently for the first time in over 30 years, so I thought I make a few brief comments.
I was only 27 when it first debuted, and couldn't recall another movie that seemed to resonate so much with the people of both my and my parents' generation. But it's not hard to see why. Despite both looking somewhat frail, Fonda and Hepburn turn in stellar performances--for Fonda his last and one of Hepburn's also. But for Fonda it was a truly great swan song.
As the crusty, 80-year old, retired professor, Fonda lashes out at the people, things, and events around him, not so much from meanness so much as just to see if anyone will pay any attention to his old lion's roar anymore, as he tries to come to grips with old baggage from his relationship with his daughter, and with the new relationship with the boy who is left with Fonda and Hepburn for a month.
Overall this is a great movie starring two of the old greats and icons from the Golden Age of Hollywood Cinema. Both Fonda and Hepburn are gone now, but they'll always be remembered for their roles in this movie as well as their other work.
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