Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 5
A frantic, irreverent adaptation of the novel, bolstered by Albert Finney's courageous performance and arresting visuals.
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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 1
A frantic, irreverent adaptation of the novel, bolstered by Albert Finney's courageous performance and arresting visuals.
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Tony Richardson's adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies of its time, winning four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film follows Tom Jones (Albert Finney), a country boy who becomes one of the wildest playboys in 18th century England, developing a ravenous taste for women, food, and rowdy adventures. Over the course of the film, Jones tries to amass his own fortune and win the heart of Sophie (Susannah York). Not only
Jan 1, 1963 Wide
Oct 30, 1997
Woodfall Film Productions
All Critics (26) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (5) | DVD (6)
The film is a way-out, walleyed, wonderful exercise in cinema. It is also a social satire written in blood with a broadaxe. It is bawdy as the British were bawdy when a wench had to wear five petticoats to barricade her virtue.
Top CriticIt has sex, Eastmancolor, some prime performers and plenty of action.
Despite the fitful energy and the beauty of the settings, the ugliness of the mise en scene and the crudity of the editing tend to triumph.
Prepare yourself for what is surely one of the wildest, bawdiest and funniest comedies that a refreshingly agile filmmaker has ever brought to the screen.
A classic not just of literary adaptation, but of the last truly adventurous era in British and European filmmaking.
A lusty historical romp with a cheeky sense of humor and a rollicking energy...
Irreverent comedy.
If Tom Jones now feels something of a product of its times, it still deserves credit for attempting something new.
The ragbag of visual tricks turns a great novel into an entertaining but simple-minded romp.
Albert Finney's performance can't stop Tom Jones from being a grainy mess.
Osborne's courageous hatchet job on Fielding's 1,000 page classic novel and Finney's gutsy performance add up to produce an enjoyable piece of irreverent entertainment.
An enjyable adaptation (by playwright John Osborn) of Henry Fielding's famous novel about the adventures of the amorous illegit son of a servant, splendidly played by the young Albert Finney.
A brilliant melding of naturalistic 18th-Century backgrounds with frantic, Keystone Kops-style slapstick and silent film devices like undercranking, titles, wipes, stop-motion photography, etc.
a messy disappointment - maybe cuz the washed out mgm dvd transfer blows
November 25, 2007Super Reviewer
A voracious bastard pursues his love - among others - in a satirical exploration of British class structure and sexual politics.Henry Fielding is sometimes credited with inventing the modern novel, and his works read like an experiment in a new form; in Joseph Andrews the narrator actually tells the reader to skip the
December 1, 2011
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