- Film Review
- Reviewed By Adrian Turner
-
4 out of 5
In this glossy romantic drama, Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford play the ideal odd couple - she's poor, jittery, Jewish and a radical, and he's rich, self-assured, Gentile and conservative. It's set against the backdrop of a changing America, including the McCarthy-era witch-hunts, and every scene seems dreamed up by a dating-agency computer, though the sheer professionalism of the picture and the performances can't fail to touch you. Redford, as a character seemingly hewn from the pages of F Scott Fitzgerald (he's a writer to boot), is perfectly cast and Streisand is simply Streisand. Watch out for James Woods in an early role.
Plot Summary
Romantic drama of personal and political passion, starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. New York, 1945: in a nightclub, Katie Morosky encounters Hubbell Gardiner, the young man she loved from afar at university. Then, as now, their personalities and goals were very different but in matters of the heart, opposites can attract.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Katie Morosky
- Barbra Streisand
- Hubbell Gardiner
- Robert Redford
- JJ
- Bradford Dillman
- Carol Ann
- Lois Chiles
- George Bissinger
- Patrick O'Neal
- Paula Reisner
- Viveca Lindfors
- Rhea Edwards
- Allyn Ann McLerie
- Brooks Carpenter
- Murray Hamilton
- Bill Verso
- Herb Edelman
- Vicki Bissinger
- Diana Ewing
- Pony Dunbar
- Sally Kirkland
- Peggy Vanderbilt
- Marcia Mae Jones
- Frankie McVeigh
- James Woods
Crew
- Director
- Sydney Pollack
- Share this episode
-