The Way We Were

Name: The Way We Were
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: October 19, 1973
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Allyn Ann McLerie, Barbra Streisand, Bradford Dillman, Diana Ewing, Herb Edelman

1973

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Columbia Pictures | Release Date: October 19, 1973 | PG

Starring: Allyn Ann McLerie, Barbra Streisand, Bradford Dillman, Diana Ewing, Herb Edelman, Lois Chiles, Murray Hamilton, Patrick O'Neal, Robert Redford, Viveca Lindfors

Summary: Two disparate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.

Director: Sydney Pollack

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: PG

Runtime: 118 min

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Alan R. Howard

Laurents' screenplay has a shocking sense of character truth, and The Way We Were says things that no one else has dared to say in a major Hollywood movie. Read full review

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This tear-jerkiest of rom-coms about a couple struggling through fundamental differences will hit you right in the feels. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Essentially just a love story, and not sturdy enough to carry the burden of both radical politics and a bittersweet ending. Read full review

Jesse Hassenger

Redford and Streisand are the whole show, so scenes with various supporting characters drag. But Pollack’s film still manages to function as a glossy rebuke to the Hollywood standard of the unlikely romance. Read full review

Empire William Thomas

It all adds up to just another glossy Love Story. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

With the script glossing whole areas of confrontation (from the communist '30s to the McCarthy witch-hunts), it often passes into the haze of a nostalgic fashion parade. Read full review

Vincent Canby

By, some peculiar alchemy, The Way We Were turns into the kind of compromised claptrap that Hubbell is supposed to be making within the film and that we're meant to think is a sellout. It is. Read full review

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Voodoo123

Jan 12, 2023

This at times touching romantic drama explores a hot cold relationship over a period of years. The cast is excellent and the production value is decent. The pacing is often inconsistent and the dialogue is often period political and went over my head mostly. Some interesting momentsThis at times touching romantic drama explores a hot cold relationship over a period of years. The cast is excellent and the production value is decent. The pacing is often inconsistent and the dialogue is often period political and went over my head mostly. Some interesting moments throughout but not much to push above the average mark.… Expand

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