Charles Boyer, Jane Fonda, Mildred Natwick

A newlywed couple moves into a New York apartment and must contend with a quirky neighbor and a nosy mother-in-lawa.

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G, 1 hr. 46 min.

Directed by: Gene Saks

Release Date: January 1, 1967

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DVD Release Date: September 21, 1999

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  • June 1, 2009
    finally a film where i can stand robert redford. decent effort at a comedy. the best part was played by charles boyer as victor velasco. there were some genuinely funny moments and it wasn't laughs all the way through. there was some actual story in there too!
  • December 19, 2007
    "barefoot in the park" is one of the wittiest comedies tackling the complementariness of genders, as jack nicholson remarks in "as good as it gets": a woman is a man devoid of reasonability and self-constraint, if you wanna comprehend how woman functions, just to shed off reason ...( read more)and discipline. it's probably the most sarcastic criticism on woman. ha. in the case of "barefoot in the park", this couple have the discord that fonda wanna walk barefoot in the park, but redford refuses becuz it's freezing cold in the squad that is utterly reasonable, no doubt about it.

    fonda's corie is a wild goose with naive opitimistism, that kind of person who would say "tomorrow is another day" with giggles..redford's paul is a properly conducted lawyer who believes in common sense and emotional maturity. and their bond is due to widely acknowledged "opposite attraction"..while corie's being adventrously whimsical, paul frowns in tranquill disapproval. their disgreement detonates when it comes to hooking corie's mother(mildred natwick) a blind date with the elderly bohemian wacko upstairs, who dines in various bizarrely exotic nauseatic cushine.

    it's the script of humorous dialogues that accomplishes the charm of this flick, and there're lots of facetious jokes. such as the laboriously climbing to their overcharged apartment with no bath tube and the loothole on the ceiling as well as a bunch of wacky neighbours. you gotta read between the lines to chew over this mildly suave sense of ridicules which belongs totally to the league of feminine-ness and only comprehended by man who has a irresonable spouse like that in the household.

    as for the concrete ideas of gender sphere in this flick, paul stands for the absolute reason; corie is the spontaneous romanticist. she demeans him as stuffed shirt, and he bombards her for the lack of rational sensibility. then corie cracks up for divorce, heart-broken paul runs amok. eventually they concede part of themselves as symmetry: distressed paul finally gets drunk then walks barefoot in the park; corie someway accepts mother's advice to give up a little bit of herself to take care of paul in their tiny shell to make him feel important.

    another parallel is the friendship of natwick as corie's mother and charles boyer as the quirky neighbor. one uptight conservative woman neutralizes herself with some unpredicatibility from another free-spirited man who also yields to behave himself in norm.

    reason and emotion should be appropriately counteracted with the solace of love and mutual concession that is the central wisdom of this play.
  • August 23, 2007
    Personally, I think Neil Simon's other works are better. I just don't feel a chemistry between Robert Redford and Jane Fonda.
  • July 14, 2007
    Another pleasant rom com typical of Neil Simon, but with a couple as appealing as Redford and Fonda, it couldn't really go wrong.
  • July 6, 2007
    A really funny movie that seems far ahead of its time. I would have rated it higher except that it had a perfect stopping point but kept on going. A classic.
  • November 19, 2009
    Lags a bit in the second act with the mother and neighbour subplot, but Redford and Fonda have great chemistry throughout and Neil Simon's script is as wacky as ever.
  • November 15, 2009
    Wonderful Neil Simon story! Probably one of the most universal comedies of all time. So many people still deal with the same issues today: being a newlywed, adjusting to living with a new person, filling new roles, while maintaining your idenitity. Ahhh! So refreshing every time ...( read more)I watch it!
  • November 11, 2009
    Funny movie about newlyweds, but the ending falls flat.
  • November 7, 2009
    Funny and cute! DVD.
  • November 6, 2009
    Penso che la parola giusta sia proprio "adorabile"
    Oh Robert, quanto eri giovane <3

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  • maffurvinyl
    February 12, 2007
    I loove this movie.
    Jane && Robert have great chemistry together.
    YAY!
  • deppluver3
    February 5, 2007
    I ADORE this movie!!

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