Our Souls at Night

Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): September 29, 2017

6.5	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 20 Ratings

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moviemitch96Oct 1, 2017

A small, yet well-acted and often times thought-provoking little film. Robert Redford and Jane Fonda do what they do best, which is work off of each other's chemistry beautifully. Overall, their worthy fourth pairing together is all theA small, yet well-acted and often times thought-provoking little film. Robert Redford and Jane Fonda do what they do best, which is work off of each other's chemistry beautifully. Overall, their worthy fourth pairing together is all the reason to watch this otherwise pretty straightforward and easygoing drama.… Expand

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LeZeeFeb 4, 2018

Not about the first love! The other way around!

This is one of my favourite genre, the tales about aging people. A rare kind. The lives, the struggle they go through, really melts my heart. So I won't miss such films. I have a long list ofNot about the first love! The other way around!

This is one of my favourite genre, the tales about aging people. A rare kind. The lives, the struggle they go through, really melts my heart. So I won't miss such films. I have a long list of such films which are my favourites. And this is another fine one to add to it.

Superb casting. I could not miss Redford films of the recent. At this age, he's phenomenal. And Jane Fonda was equally great. Another Netflix's wonderful product directed by an Indian filmmaker. This was about two old guys, been single for a long time. Now trying to connect, with some effort, they develop an understanding relationship. But not everybody around is happy with it. They have to face them and keep it going. Afterall at this age what they have set to lose!

More like a real life event. There's no any twist, not like a surprising incident. Just beautiful, a kind of love tale. Obviously a little slow, but totally worth it. If you like drama films, this will be a treat to watch. Based on the book of the same name. My only issue was, the end was ordinary, though an acceptable one. Surely, the families, the middle aged members and above would enjoy it. One of the best films of the year.

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ErichFeb 4, 2019

In case you're wondering, I don't consider a 6 to be a bad review; to me a 6 can be a solidly entertaining, even touching movie, as this one was to me. It just didn't rise to higher levels. One thing i liked about it, a special quality andIn case you're wondering, I don't consider a 6 to be a bad review; to me a 6 can be a solidly entertaining, even touching movie, as this one was to me. It just didn't rise to higher levels. One thing i liked about it, a special quality and rather rare for cinema, was its deliberately (yet casually) slow pace. It was refreshing to see a movie that wasn't calibrated as though its audience had a slow attention span, condescendingly assumed to have little patience for scenes that proceed at the speed of... ordinary life. Granted, it was at times surreal to see Robert Redford and Jane Fonda inhabiting the roles of normal small town retirees, widower and widow, and neighbors for decades who had never before really gotten to know each other. But once you relax and suspend your critical faculties, honed over years of modern movie-watching to be expertly cynical, it becomes as heartwarming as a cup of cocoa from a grandmother you've taken for granted. As the movie unfolded its steady, calm story, I became quietly amazed at how deftly Redford underplayed his role, and came to appreciate it as an act of generosity on his part, breathing life into his character with zero histrionics; or, to put it another way, he seemed to have achieved the role without "acting". Fonda's persona, meanwhile, was delightful in small, circumscribed ways, she too avoiding the easy cliches that would have hammed it up. Together, in long scenes of merely talking to each other -- not with fast-paced, glib repartee, but through dialogues that allowed the beauty of our day-to-day banality an unstudied elegance -- they grew on each other, and on me. And I'm sure glad at the end... well, I don't want to spoil it.… Expand

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tjhartJul 11, 2019

Based on the book by James Haruf, Redford and Fonda seem mismatched for their roles in both appearance and temperament. But they do bring an earnestness to their task so, overall, they are not a net minus. What does cause this movie to failBased on the book by James Haruf, Redford and Fonda seem mismatched for their roles in both appearance and temperament. But they do bring an earnestness to their task so, overall, they are not a net minus. What does cause this movie to fail is the Hollywood gloss put on everything. This is a story about the beauty found in simplicity, the beauty found in facing the challenge of aging, death, and in taking stock of past errors. In the book their exists a vein of major conflict --blackmail, even -- that exists between Fonda's character Addie and her son. It is the lone place where there is even the hint of hero/villain and for some reason it has been omitted in the movie. There are other issues: the town is larger, prettier, that the one described in the book, they make changes arbitrarily in matters of fact (Louis, Redford in the book wanted to be a poet and worked summers as a house painter, in the movie he aspired to be a painter and worked summers in construction) These are minor but like switching the baby mice for a train set s a vehicle to engage the boy, the question of why comes up. Sorry, but the writers for the movie script should have left well enough alone.… Expand

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Gamzguy17Aug 21, 2021

*Gasp* oh my goodness! What a cute film this was! Screen legends, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, demonstrate that they still got major acting chops as they play the two main leads in a story that is told with a sweet, mature, and humble*Gasp* oh my goodness! What a cute film this was! Screen legends, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, demonstrate that they still got major acting chops as they play the two main leads in a story that is told with a sweet, mature, and humble presentation. It's all portrayed with an adorably serious heart.… Expand

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