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- 1977
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 4 m
- 1977
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 4 m
Summary Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.
Directed By: Sydney Pollack
Written By: Erich Maria Remarque, Alvin Sargent
- 1977
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 4 m
- 1977
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 4 m
Bobby Deerfield
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Summary Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.
Directed By: Sydney Pollack
Written By: Erich Maria Remarque, Alvin Sargent
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
47
20% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
70% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
10% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
47
20% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
70% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
10% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
A big, slick melodrama that knows exactly what it wants to accomplish and does so with great craft.
Don't be fooled by the action-packed DVD cover: Pacino spends roughly five minutes of Deerfield racing, and two hours learning, from a woman facing death, how to embrace life.
Even though Alvin Sargent's script lacks both grace and plausibility and director Sydney Pollack has succumbed to pretentions of European artiness, star chemistry might have made this love story catch fire. [03 Oct 1977, p. 71]
This gorgeously shot film is a trifle long at just over two hours; much of the racing footage could have been dispensed with, along with the sudsiest of the emotions.
An uncoordinated tear jerker certain to double up cynics and touch only those fans who prefer their favorites lost in a narcissistic fog. [26 Oct 1977, p.B1]
Big, expensive, ultimately ridiculous movie that appears to have been constructed to be a Love Story on wheels.
A rich-meets-rich picture, and worse than one imagines. Al Pacino gives a torpid performance as a spiritually depleted Grand Prix racing-car driver who falls in love with a well-heeled free spirit (Marthe Keller), a metaphysical kook.
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Production Company
Columbia Pictures,
Warner Bros.,
First Artists
Release Date Sep 29, 1977
Duration 2 h 4 m
Rating PG
Tagline Who is Bobby Deerfield? No one really knew. Not the crowds who cheered him. Not the women who made love to him. Not the family who reached out to him. No one until now. No one until her.
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
