Monday, August 27, 2012

Barefoot in the Park

Barefoot in the Park (1967) starring Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer, Mildred Natwick. Redford and Fonda play Paul and Corie, a newly married couple who take up residence in a 5th-floor walkup in New York. She's a free spirit, he's a stuffed-shirt lawyer. They fight and make up. That's basically the plot. This is a trifle of a movie, scripted by Neil Simon from his Broadway play of the same title. It's nice to see a young Redford and a young Fonda together on the screen, and the side plot with Boyer and Natwick is charming. (The disc offers English subtitles for the hearing-impaired, as well as closed captions.) Grade: B

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