On Golden Pond [VHS] Overview
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). The DVD release has widescreen presentation, director's commentary, documentary footage on the making of the film, theatrical trailer, notes and information about the production, and optional Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
This is a movie with many problems and are intertwined in a warm blanket of understanding for the viewer. It concerns love, family conflicts, dementia, growing, growing and growing old way.
Norman Thayer (Henry Fonda) and his wife Ethel (Katharine Hepburn) are at their summer cottage on the lake somewhere in the northeast. You have the car for a long time in possession. Norman read old newspaper clippings on his retirement as a university professor, an intelligent man and respected - and stillNorman does not recognize people in a framed picture or remember the name of the phone company. You see, it is with dementia and have to do sometimes frustrated. It 's a proud man and includes a lot with his surly nature.
This summer their daughter Chelsea (Jane Fonda) comes with her boyfriend Bill Ray (Dabney Coleman) and his 13-year-old son Billy (Doubt McKeon) from a previous marriage. I leave you with Billy Thayer because they want a romantic vacation together in Europe.
Norman is grumpy, but agrees to be the summer for Billy. Think too of 80 years and his health. He never understood how to raise a daughter and not get to Chelsea as a teenager - she has called "bold" and a total of distant and unloving. Chelsea can not "chip" of his statements on their shoulders and go - but Norman can not live very long.
enjoy somewhat, with only Billy Flowers Billy Norman and really helps her timecabin with two "old" - fishing meets Norman and Billy. When her daughter returns in late summer, understanding and reconciliation is happening to her so ..
Golden Pond, and Thayer's "golden years" to tackle the loss of health, dementia, aging script from a wonderful cast and well written. Jane Fonda problems of real life with her father Henry seem all too similar to the screen. Wondering if acting, or reacting to its litigationComments. The three main actors, Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda are a trifecta of talent.
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