Rotten
A distended, talky, redundant and moody melodrama.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Way We Were
Everything seemed so important then... even love!
1973 · 1h 58m · PG
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Sydney Pollack
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The Way We Were
Overview
Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.
Director and cast
- Sydney Pollack Director
- Barbra Streisand as Katie Morosky
- Robert Redford as Hubbell Gardner
- Bradford Dillman as J.J.
- Lois Chiles as Carol Ann
- Patrick O'Neal as George Bissinger
- Viveca Lindfors as Paula Reisner
- Allyn Ann McLerie as Rhea Edwards
- Murray Hamilton as Brooks Carpenter
- Herb Edelman as Bill Verso
- Diana Ewing as Vicki Bissinger
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
65%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A for effort; C for execution.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Fresh
It's easy to forgive the movie a lot because of Streisand. She's fantastic.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
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.
Time Out
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