Barefoot in the Park

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Summary: Best of Neil Simon Romantic Comedy
Review: My two favorite Jane Fonda movies are "Sunday In New York" and this one. Redford & Fonda are super. Great soundtrack.

Rating:
Summary: Best of Neil Simon Romantic Comedy
Review: My two favorite Jane Fonda movies are "Sunday In New York" and this one. Redford & Fonda are super. Great soundtrack.

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Summary: Take A Walk in the Park, Barefoot or Not!
Review: Neil Simon is a master storyteller and has such an amazing way of creating complexity out of simple characters. I found this film to be one of his better stories.

This movie is timeless and for anyone nostalgic for the 60's it is a walk down memory lane. The story is found in the relationship between two young people who marry and move into a Greenwich apartment. Both the apartment and the relationship need a bit of work and throughout the movie the characters strive for a better living arrangement.

Robert Redford is a bit stiff in his role as the serious lawyer husband to Jane Fonda's perky and ever curious wife. Together they are a mismatch that somehow works or at least you hope it will. The scenes are deeply written with lots of twists and turns and comedic outlets to maintain the viewer's interest. The funniest parts of the story arrive during the scenes with Fonda's mother, Mildred Natwick, and their Hungarian neighbor, Charles Boyer. Opposites attract from all angles and Simon's writing brings all of the mismatches together with an interesting flair.

If you love New York, Redford, Simon or Fonda or just a great old love story with a few laughs this film is for you. So kick off your shoes and enjoy this walk in the park!

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Summary: I have found a new relationship to an old movie.
Review: Neil Simon's Broadway success brought to the big screen.

Yep, I enjoyed this movie when it first came out. I could relate to the newly weds as many people start out in similar environments. This movie version of the play has spoiled me to the point that other attempts at "Barefoot in the Park" fall short of my expectations.

A part that I thought was funny but had no relationship to, was the "little pink pills" that Corie's mother (Mildred Natwick) had to take to handle the rich food and drink environment. Now I take little pink pills.

Does this mean that I am destined to end up in the Hotel National in Mexico City?


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Summary: I have found a new relationship to an old movie.
Review: Paul Bratter and Corie are newly weds with all the problems of adjusting and helpful relatives. With their first apartment that is several flights up they must pass a large cat with a can opener.

Yep, I enjoyed this movie when it first came out. I could relate to the newly weds as many people start out in similar environments. This version of the play has spoiled me to the point that other attempts at "Barefoot in the Park" fall short of my expectations.

A part that I thought was funny but had no relationship to, was the "little pink pills" that Corie's mother (Mildred Natwick) had to take to handle the rich food and drink environment. Now I take little pink pills.

Does this mean that I am destined to end up in the Hotel National in Mexico City?

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Summary: stuffy lawyer marries free spirit spitfire
Review: This an absolute charmer. Very Breakfast at Tiffany-esque. Redford and Fonda shine as mismatched couple. Sure it was cheesy, with that 1960s chorus in the background. But if you love romantic comedies give it a try.

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Summary: "SHAMMA SHAMMA!"
Review: This is a great romantic comedy it has the charm of woody allen and billy crystal's films and it has the humor of its writer Neil Simon. The story takes place in the mid 1960's and involes a young newlywed couple played by Robert Redford and Jane Fonda.
After spending six "wonderful days at the Plaza" as miss Fonda so well put it they go home to start the marrige. They move into a one room apt. on the east side of new york and it's a walk up six flights. in the film we meet some very funny charecters like Victor Volasco and Corrie's mom who happend to still the hole film. This is a great sit at home date movie and im sure you'll love it! "Shamma Shamma"

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Summary: Wow, terrifically funny - Mildred Natwick is a gem!
Review: This is a wonderful character study of a young newlywed couple and the hijinks around their first problems.

It's all truly marvelous, touching, warm, laugh-out-loud funny.

Even Jane Fonda's great.

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Summary: Love, laughs, and cold feet!
Review: This is among the many filmed plays written by Neil Simon, and one of the best. I must own that in his work I would like to see Simon get laughs by introducing a few more comic situations and perhaps be a little less reliant on his patent New York one-liners--the kind that go along with a TV "laugh track"--although few are better at it. For all that, "Barefoot In the Park" is nonetheless undeniably enjoyable (if a bit slow-starting), funny, and peopled with amusing characters. The cast is first rate, particularly a young Robert Redford in a polished comic performance, and the movie-stealing Mildred Natwick and Charles Boyer as victims of one of comedy's funniest mismatches.

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Summary: Fonda & Redford - One of Hollywoods greatest pairings!
Review: This movie is, in a word, FUNNY! The casting and the dialogue are simply phenomenal. If you don't laugh at this movie, you are a humorless person. Mildred Natwick was deservedly nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar that year (losing to Estelle Parsons for "Bonnie & Clyde") for recreating her stage role (along with Redford) as Jane Fonda's mother and is brilliant! One of Neil Simon's absolute classics. Best Moment: Every staircase scene!