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Summary: I Love This Movie!
Review: Barefoot in the Park is one of my favorite movies, I taped it when it was shown in Letterbox Widescreen on TCM and when I get arond to it I'm going to buy it on DVD. This is a very charming movie and has a wonderful cast! Jane Fonda is absolutely charming as spunky newlywed Bride Corrie Bratter and Robert Redford is great as her uptight husband Paul but also good are Mildred Natwick as Corrie's mother and Charles Boyer as eccentric, fun-loving neighbor Victor Velasco and I highly recommend this charming movie!
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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: 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: 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: I Love This Movie!
Review: Barefoot in the Park is one of my favorite movies, I taped it when it was shown in Letterbox Widescreen on TCM and when I get around to it I'm going to buy it on DVD. This is a very charming movie and has a wonderful cast! Jane Fonda is absolutely charming as spunky, fun-loving newlywed Bride Corrie Bratter and Robert Redford is very good as her uptight husband Paul but also good are Mildred Natwick as Corrie's mother and Charles Boyer as eccentric neighbor Victor Velasco and I highly recommend this charming movie!
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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: Just a delight!
Review: An old friend (and fan of goofy romance) recommended this film to me. It took 6 months and I finally got around to seeing the DVD. The DVD has the original trailer and looks great. The sound is solid, but you aren't buying this DVD for the effects. You are buying this for the film. Pauline Kael called this film, "a trifle and almost amusing in a harmlessly, pleasantly stupid way" (5001 Nights at the Movies). She missed the whole point of the film. You don't take a movie like this seriously. You let the charm of Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, and the bouyant Charles Boyer take you away. You just laugh and enjoy. The story of two young newlyweds is age old. You can see where Dharma and Greg get their inspiration, and the 90 minutes of this film are far better than any episode of that show. I immediately fell in love with Fonda's Corrie. Charles Boyer steals the movie. At times it is a bit dated (like Corrie's mom's advice about making a happy marriage), but that is no matter. If you want to smile and fall in love, see this film. It looks great on DVD. Do yourself a favor, ignore the junk playing at a theatre near you and enjoy this one at home as winter comes.
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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.
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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: Still charming after all this time ....
Review: This one is a winner. The script is bright, witty and romantic. Fonda is so cute you can't decide whether to kiss her or kill her - but it works. Mildred Natwick steals the film from the younger set as Fonda's widowed mother, every scene she is in is laugh-out-loud funny. Dated, yes - 1967 New York. In a way though it almost plays better with age. If your a New Yorker or New York fan, it's a hoot to look at the city scenes from then. A true feel-good comedy. Highly recommended.
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