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Mood:
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- Golden YearsHuman NatureParents and ChildrenElderlyMind and SoulCouplesFamily RelationsAging more...
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- DramaMelodrama
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- 20th Century80s
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- Award WinnerBlockbusterCritically AcclaimedOscar WinnerPrestigious Awards
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- Ensemble Cast
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On Golden Pond, 1981
English
UK, USA
Profile of On Golden Pond
The mood of On Golden Pond is captivating, touching, and bittersweet. The plot centers around the golden years, human nature, and parents and children. It is a drama movie. Stylistically, On Golden Pond is a melodrama and stars an ensemble cast. In approach, it is realistic. The pacing is slow. On Golden Pond happens in the 1980s. It is adapted from a play. The movie is known for being an Oscar winner, a blockbuster, and critically acclaimed. Note that On Golden Pond includes profanity.
Summary of On Golden Pond
Based on the play by Ernest Thompson, On Golden Pond tells the deceptively simple tale of one family's summer. The story centers around the bickering but loving relationship between Ethel and Norman Thayer (Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda), an elderly couple who are spending their 48th summer at their New England country home and celebrating Norman's 80th birthday. When their independent, insecure daughter, Chelsea (Jane Fonda), and her new boyfriend, Bill Ray (Dabney Coleman), come for Norman's birthday, they also end up asking the couple to look after Billy Ray (Doug McKeon), Bill's teenage son, while they travel to Europe. Over the summer, Norman becomes closer to Billy Ray than he has ever been to his daughter, sparking Chelsea's long-repressed resentment when she returns. In this beautifully filmed story, there are many things going on along the surface of Golden Pond, including the presence of the loons--who represent all things wonderful about their summer house and their life to Ethel. Director Mark Rydell elicits deeply touching performances from his cast (particularly Henry Fonda in his final screen appearance), and the dialogue of Thompson's script is equally graceful. The odds were against this decidedly quiet, small ensemble piece when it was released in 1981, but the timeless material and the confident direction triumphed.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK, USA |
| Release date: | 4 December 1981 |
| Runtime: | 109 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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as Ethel Thayer
as Norman Thayer Jr.
as Chelsea Thayer Wayne
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- 05.September.2010
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- by: ColumboFan
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- 20.March.2009
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- by: sethdellinger
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