The politics are relegated to the background, and what is left is a commercially astute weepie.
The Way We Were (1973)
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Reviews Counted: 18
Fresh: 11
Rotten:7
Average Rating: 6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Sydney Pollack directs Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand in this sensitive and moving tale of the romance of two individuals whose political ideologies are exact opposites. Streisand won an... Sydney Pollack directs Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand in this sensitive and moving tale of the romance of two individuals whose political ideologies are exact opposites. Streisand won an Academy Award nomination for her performance as Katie Morosky, a Jewish student radical who falls in love with Hubbell Gardner (Redford), a conservative privileged writer. The two interact from the beginning of their college courtship through the Hollywood-blacklisting era of the 1950s. [More]
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Murray Hamilton
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Murray Hamilton, Lois Chiles, Patrick O'Neal, Herb Edelman, Roy Jenson, Brendan Kelly
Director: Sydney Pollack
Director: Sydney Pollack
Producer: Ray Stark
Composer: Marvin Hamlisch
Story: Arthur Laurents
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Reviews for The Way We Were
An engrossing, if occasionally ludicrous, hit tearjerker with Pollack, Streisand, and Redford doing a good job of bringing Arthur Laurents' script to the screen.
With the script glossing whole areas of confrontation (from the communist '30s to the McCarthy witch-hunts), it often passes into the haze of a nostalgic fashion parade.
It's easy to forgive the movie a lot because of Streisand. She's fantastic.
The story of Jewish left-wing ugly duckling and the WASP prince with whom she falls in love encapsulates its time and emotions with knowing precision.
Comes off as about as believable as a love affair between myself and a potted plant.
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