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Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Dabnet Coleman, Doug McKeon
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about On Golden Pond |
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Retired professor Norman Thayer Jr. (Henry Fonda) and his wife Ethel (Hepburn) have gone to Golden Pond for the summer, where they have had a cottage since early in their marriage roughly 50 years before. He hasn't seen his grown daughter Chelsea (Jane Fonda) in years, but she's coming with her fiance Bill Ray (Coleman) for her father's birthday, will leave her fiance's son Billy (McKeon) in New Hampshire while the couple goes to Europe and gets married, and return to pick up the boy later. When she does, she discovers that Billy has developed the kind of relationship with her father she always wanted. With beautiful scenery, a decent script (by Ernest Thompson, based on his play), and some terrific acting by a couple of old pros (both Fonda and Hepburn picked up Oscars for this one -- his first and only, her fourth!), this 1981 story is memorable and deeply moving.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of On Golden Pond |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Father
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- teacher/professor
Age:
- 60's-90's
Hair color?
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- physically sick
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Body type
- (woman) ample chest and buttocks
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Forest?
Yes
Water?
Yes
Water:
- swimming on
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- spiritual
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- play
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