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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $9.49 You Save: $5.49 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DTS Surround Sound • DVD-Video • Special Edition • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 22 January, 1982 DVD Release : 16 December, 2003 |
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On Golden Pond (Special Edition) description 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 |
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| This gag worthy and highly artificial concoction throws in every late twentieth century clichA on cross generational bonding: a tremulous geriatric couple who appear to have been loaned by the "Carol Burnett Show", (remember when Carol and Harvey Korman did the elderly couple--and her grabbed her by the leg?)which is to say, they are as bristly and acerbic as a hairbrush in their testy public exchanges, but in their tender moments, they just brim with tearful, "genuine" reminiscent emotions.
In other words, it traffics in the type of Jimmy Carter era "authenticity" that consists in and of overalls, flapjacks, and maple syrup. One keeps expecting Will Geer to appear. And who better to interpret this type of thing, than the dessicated "Hank" Fonda and Kate Hepburn, both of whom had long since discarded their by now forgotten, (but oh how much more appealing!) suaver selves in the more moth eaten environs of the RKO prop department. Visually the film is suffused with Vermont travelogue optics--stereotypical slanting sunbeams on the lake ad nauseam, and it must be added, to the point that the whole thing looks like a very extended margarine commercial. The script follows suit--for amidst the unbearable schmatlz, it takes pains to contain all the Norman Learish style "hep" touches--scatological humor, profanities, etc. (after all, lest we forget, Jane Fonda is in this too) meant to assure the audience that, we are dealing with "real" people, that this is in fact the late 20th century, and Ozzie and Harriet don't live here any more. In short, it has all the sham sincerity of a Hallmark greeting card for an Octagenerian. You know the type--with the oaken bucket and the black eyed Susan peeping out? Diabetics are herewith advised to avoid. Those seeking a better take on these basic themes are herewith directed to: "I Never Sang for My Father" or "The Whales of August." |
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