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- 105 Minutes
- Paramount Pictures
- Language English
- Country USA
- Rated: G
- Format: Widescreen
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- Directed by Gene Saks
- Written by Neil Simon
- Starring Charles Boyer, Jane Fonda, Mildred Natwick, Robert Redford
Master of Broadway comedy Neil Simon adapted his hit play about a conservative young lawter and his off-the-wall bride for this warm film classic. Robert Redford is Mister Straight. Jane Fonda is his new wife, who dedicates her life to the pursuit of fun. As the ectasy of the honeymoon gives way to the reality of setting up housekeeping in a five-flight walk-up, the harmony of the marriage turns to comical discord. The mother-in-law complains meekly. The middle-aged Lothario upstairs flirts. Joy turns to anguish. There is little doubt that the young people will kiss and make up by the end of the picture, just as there's little doubt that the mother and the neighbor will find each other. Fonda and Redford make a wonderfully successful comedy team.
"If it's romantic farce you delight in — old-fashioned romantic farce loaded with incongruities and snappy verbal gags — then you should find the movie version of BAREFOOT IN THE PARK to your taste." -- Bosley Crowther, THE NEW YORK TIMES
(Read more)- More on Barefoot in the Park:
- Profile of writer Neil Simon
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