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| Universal Pictures | Release Date: December 4, 1981 |
Starring:
Christopher Rydell, Dabney Coleman, Doug McKeon, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Troy Garity, William Lanteau
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On Golden Pond is a treasure for many reasons, but the best one, I think, is that I could believe it. I could believe in its major characters and their relationships, and in the things they felt for one another, and there were moments when the movie was witness to human growth and change. I left the theater feeling good and warm, and with a certain resolve to try to mend my own relationships and learn to start listening better.
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Fonda and Hepburn work gallantly against the mythic: Norman and
Ethel are specific people, New Englanders, a middle-class pair without any
special abilities or beliefs that might ease their slide into the oblivion
at the end of life. They are Every Couple, delineated with a sharpness
that only two consummate professionals working at the peak of their powers
could provide. [18 Dec 1981]
The biggest surprise with On Golden Pond is that the best performance in the film is not turned in by a Fonda. Rather, it is Katharine Hepburn, in a performance without gimmicks or "great scenes," who communicates so much of the film's emotional power as a portrait of the serenity and anger associated with old age.
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But there's something timid about the way in which Ernest Thompson has adapted his witty play for the screen version of On Golden Pond, as if it had to do an extra-hard job to prove itself appealing. [22 Jan 1982, p.17]
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