Julia

Name: Julia
Genre: Drama
Released: October 2, 1977
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Dora Doll, Elisabeth Mortensen, Hal Holbrook, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards

1977

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: October 2, 1977 | PG

Starring: Dora Doll, Elisabeth Mortensen, Hal Holbrook, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, John Glover, Maximilian Schell, Meryl Streep, Rosemary Murphy, Vanessa Redgrave

Summary: At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG

Runtime: 117 min

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Fred Zinnemann’s superbly sensitive film explores the anti-Nazi awakening in the 1930s of writer Lillian Hellman via persecution of a childhood friend, portrayed in excellent characterization by Vanessa Redgrave in title role. Richard Roth’s production is handsome and tasteful. Read full review

Gary Arnold

Despite its gentility and evasiveness, Julia may have come much closer to the truth about Lillian Hellman on the strength of Jane Fonda's edgy, persuasive performance, which reveals an intelligent woman who couldn't feel more unsuree of herself or less like a conquering heroine. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Julia is the story of a fascinating woman, told from the point of view of someone who hardly knew her. That is, I realize, an unkind judgment against Lillian Hellman, whose wartime memoirs provide the inspiration for the story. But this movie's problems start with its point of view, and it never quite recovers from them. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

The script, the direction and finally, Fonda's acting choices capture nothing of what made Hellman a true piss-and-vinegar original. Read full review

Vincent Canby

Mr. Sargent and Mr. Zinneman have amplified the story with solemn care, in good taste (which is not always desirable), and have come forth with a film that is both well-meaning and on the side of the angels but with the exception of a half-dozen scenes, lifeless. Read full review

Time Out London Staff (Not Credited)

Zinnemann blows it most of all in the Fonda-Redgrave relationship, and no credibility is given to Hellman's ferocious talent and dominant personality. Read full review

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DawdlingPoet

Nov 24, 2021

This is a somewhat sobering watch. It's mainly a somewhat slow drama about 2 sisters who become separated when one travels to Europe and the other tries to keep in touch and to help her out. As the story develops, the context of the time its set in (the 1930s and latterly Germany) makesThis is a somewhat sobering watch. It's mainly a somewhat slow drama about 2 sisters who become separated when one travels to Europe and the other tries to keep in touch and to help her out. As the story develops, the context of the time its set in (the 1930s and latterly Germany) makes things seem, inevitably, more serious than it perhaps initially seemed. Its a relatively good drama, which may be somewhat thought provoking, although I wouldn't call it a particularly memorable watch but there is some interesting dialogue and the cast is ok. As a thoughtful piece of 1930s period drama, this isn't bad at all - not great but not bad. I'd recommend it if the main story really interest you, yes.… Expand

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