Jane Fonda in Five Acts

Name: Jane Fonda in Five Acts
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 21, 2018
Duration: 133 min
Rating: 87
Cast: Dick Cavett, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Mary Luana Williams, Nathalie Vadim

2018

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Home Box Office (HBO) | Release Date: September 21, 2018 | TV-14

Starring: Dick Cavett, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Mary Luana Williams, Nathalie Vadim, Paula Weinstein, Richard Nixon, Robert Redford, Ted Turner, Tom Hayden, Troy Garity

Summary: A look at the life, work, activism and controversies of actress and fitness tycoon, Jane Fonda.

Director: Susan Lacy

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: TV-14

Runtime: 133 min

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Dorothy Rabinowitz

Sep 20, 2018

It’s hard to overstate the pleasures of this film or, more precisely, this encounter with its subject. Read full review

Gwen Ihnat

Sep 25, 2018

Throughout, the documentary offers glowing praise of Fonda that falls just short of fawning. Frankly, it’s difficult not to be impressed. Seventy-eight at the time of filming, the formidable Fonda personifies courage and strength in her interviews, even as she reveals tremendous vulnerabilities. Read full review

Alonso Duralde

Aug 24, 2018

Hers is a lot of life to try to capture in one movie, but Jane Fonda in Five Acts certainly covers her emotional arc with thoroughness and compassion. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nell Minow

Sep 21, 2018

Fonda’s own interviews are candid and insightful. Her regrets about the way she allowed herself to be used by the North Vietnamese are sincere but practiced. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Aug 24, 2018

Lively, confessional, and entertaining. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Aug 24, 2018

Notwithstanding the talking-head commentary of friends, colleagues and exes, this is very much a first-person story, taking its narrative cues from Fonda's self-searching 2005 autobiography. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Sep 20, 2018

All in all, Jane Fonda in Five Acts proves a captivating, extremely well-told and crafted, decidedly fitting tribute to a Hollywood legend, fighter and survivor who just might surprise us one day with a “sixth act.” Read full review

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LegendaryLass

Dec 21, 2018

An exhaustive and insightful look into Fonda's life with impressive access. Paints a picture, good and bad, of one of the most important and interesting personalities of the last 50 years.

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