Barefoot in the Park

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Summary: If you need to take your mind off life, this is the movie!
Review: I loved this movie! with all the terrible things going on in our world, we need more movies like this!
It transports you back to a time long gone. It has a sweet innocence about it!
For an hour and a half you will forget the grief going on in the world!
Buy this movie and watch it with the one you love! Then pass it on to everyone you know!

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Summary: A Pleasurable Romp through the Park
Review: I thought of this movie often while living my first 6 months in Vilnius in a cold, dank apartment, impatiently waiting for Spring to arrive. I finally broke down and bought "Barefoot in the Park" on DVD and wasn't disappointed. This movie has aged well, thanks in large part to Jane Fonda's wholehearted performance. Redford, unfortunately, looked sadly out of place. The movie bounces bouyantly along on the strength of Jane's indomitable will, aided by wonderful performances from Charles Boyer and Mildred Natwick. At film's end you wonder why Corrie still has anything to do with her deadbeat husband. Redford looks positively goofy dancing barefoot in the park, but you just have to imagine he has a good heart.

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Summary: A Pleasurable Romp through the Park
Review: I thought of this movie often while living my first 6 months in Vilnius in a cold, dank apartment, impatiently waiting for Spring to arrive. I finally broke down and bought "Barefoot in the Park" on DVD and wasn't disappointed. This movie has aged well, thanks in large part to Jane Fonda's wholehearted performance. Redford, unfortunately, looked sadly out of place. The movie bounces bouyantly along on the strength of Jane's indomitable will, aided by wonderful performances from Charles Boyer and Mildred Natwick. At film's end you wonder why Corrie still has anything to do with her deadbeat husband. Redford looks positively goofy dancing barefoot in the park, but you just have to imagine he has a good heart.

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Summary: A Pleasurable Romp through the Park
Review: I thought of this movie often while living my first 6 months in Vilnius in a cold, dank apartment, impatiently waiting for Spring to arrive. I finally broke down and bought "Barefoot in the Park" on DVD and wasn't disappointed. This movie has aged well, thanks in large part to Jane Fonda's wholehearted performance. Redford, unfortunately, looked sadly out of place. The movie bounces bouyantly along on the strength of Jane's indomitable will, aided by wonderful performances from Charles Boyer and Mildred Natwick. At film's end you wonder why Corrie still has anything to do with her deadbeat husband. Redford looks positively goofy dancing barefoot in the park, but you just have to imagine he has a good heart.

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Summary: It was great!
Review: I watched this movie several times. Each time I watched it, I became more and more enchanted with it. It is very fast-paced and funny, and Robert Redford and Jane Fonda are charming enough to make me reconsider my bachelorhood. It is one of the weirdest movies I have watched in a while, but that is what makes it awesome.

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Summary: The Cast Really Shines In Simon's Comedy
Review: I'm no great fan of Neil Simon, but this neat adaption of his popular stage success BAREFOOT IN THE PARK brings a smile to my face--and it probably will yours too. The story is quite simple: newlyweds Robert Redford and Jane Fonda have moved into a New York apartment building peopled by eccentrics... and their own tiny apartment has hole in the skylight, no heat, and you have walk up five flights to get there. Redford, a rather stodgy conservative, takes a dim view of the whole thing; Fonda, who has an excessively happy-go-lucky disposition, thinks everything is great fun. Needless to say, they're soon going at it hammer and tongs.

This is a very contrived, sitcom-ish film, but the cast carries it well. Although Redford has remained a great star for forty years, his films have been very hit or miss; here he is well cast, and he plays expertly. During this period of her career, Fonda was very much the perky girl-next-door with a slight sex-kitten spin, and she too is fun to watch. But the real winners here are Charles Boyer, as their eccentric neighbor, and particularly Mildred Natwick, as Fonda's mother. Natwick excelled at playing disconcerted matrons, and this is perhaps the best of the many fine, memorable variations of the type she offered during her long and very enjoyable career. BAREFOOT IN THE PARK won't go down in history as a great film, nor will change your point of view. But it is tremendously good fun, a film I've enjoyed every time time I've seen it--and that is a good many. Recommended; you'll enjoy it.

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Summary: The Cast Really Shines In Simon's Comedy
Review: I'm no great fan of Neil Simon, but this neat adaption of his popular stage success BAREFOOT IN THE PARK brings a smile to my face--and it probably will yours too. The story is quite simple: newlyweds Robert Redford and Jane Fonda have moved into a New York apartment building peopled by eccentrics... and their own tiny apartment has hole in the skylight, no heat, and you have walk up five flights to get there. Redford, a rather stodgy conservative, takes a dim view of the whole thing; Fonda, who has an excessively happy-go-lucky disposition, thinks everything is great fun. Needless to say, they're soon going at it hammer and tongs.

This is a very contrived, sitcom-ish film, but the cast carries it well. Although Redford has remained a great star for forty years, his films have been very hit or miss; here he is well cast, and he plays expertly. During this period of her career, Fonda was very much the perky girl-next-door with a slight sex-kitten spin, and she too is fun to watch. But the real winners here are Charles Boyer, as their eccentric neighbor, and particularly Mildred Natwick, as Fonda's mother. Natwick excelled at playing disconcerted matrons, and this is perhaps the best of the many fine, memorable variations of the type she offered during her long and very enjoyable career. BAREFOOT IN THE PARK won't go down in history as a great film, nor will change your point of view. But it is tremendously good fun, a film I've enjoyed every time time I've seen it--and that is a good many. Recommended; you'll enjoy it.

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Summary: Funny movie, great fun!
Review: Jane Fonda and Robert Redford in their prime. Movie is splendidly done with fine supporting cast. Writer Neil Simon at his wittiest!

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Summary: Redford Steals Most Of This Film!
Review: Jane's not bad, either! But Mr. Redford is quite funny during many scenes of this film! Newlyweds Jane & Robert struggle to set up housekeeping in this very humorous flick, based on the Neil Simon play. Mildred Natwick deserves 5 full stars as well, for her side-splitting part in this one!

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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.