Our Souls at Night

Name: Our Souls at Night
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: September 29, 2017
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Anthoula Katsimatides, Audrey Walters, Bruce Dern, Hawley Penfold, Iain Armitage

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): September 29, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Anthoula Katsimatides, Audrey Walters, Bruce Dern, Hawley Penfold, Iain Armitage, Jane Fonda, Judy Greer, Kyrannio Margaros, Leana Lewis, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Love Toliver, Phyllis Somerville, Robert Redford

Summary: Our Souls at Night is set in Colorado and begins when Addie Moore (Jane Fonda) pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters (Robert Redford). Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they’d been neighbors for decades, but had little contact. Their children live far away and they are all alone in theirOur Souls at Night is set in Colorado and begins when Addie Moore (Jane Fonda) pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters (Robert Redford). Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they’d been neighbors for decades, but had little contact. Their children live far away and they are all alone in their big houses. She seeks to establish a connection, and make the most of the rest of the time they have.… Expand

Director: Ritesh Batra

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 103 min

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Richard Roeper

Sep 28, 2017

About half the scenes in Our Souls at Night consist of Jane Fonda and Robert Redford simply talking to one another. Those scenes are more exhilarating, more intoxicating and more memorable than many if not most gigantic action sequences in big-budget movies. Read full review

Deborah Young

Sep 17, 2017

Both Redford and Fonda are charming, delicate and convincing as Addie Moore and Louis Waters, the couple who find each other at the tail end of their lives. They are directed with sophistication and without a drop of melodrama or sentimentality by Ritesh Batra Read full review

Kenneth Turan

Sep 28, 2017

Made with care and conviction as it explores this unexpected relationship, "Our Souls at Night" understands both what changes in people as they age and what remains the same. It covers quite a bit of emotional territory, and it covers it well. Read full review

Alonso Duralde

Sep 17, 2017

There’s nothing particularly world-shaking about Our Souls at Night, but it’s a nice movie about nice people finding love. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Sep 17, 2017

It’s hard to deny that the small screen may be the most natural fit for Batra’s film, given its pleasantly mollified storytelling and blandly unassuming visual style. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Sep 26, 2017

The ending may be strained, but it works its way to just the right sentiment. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jul 17, 2018

It is stately, quiet and elegiac, all respect-your-elders politesse for “Pleasantly dull.” Read full review

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Gamzguy17

Aug 21, 2021

*Gasp* oh my goodness! What a cute film this was! Screen legends, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, demonstrate that they still got major acting chops as they play the two main leads in a story that is told with a sweet, mature, and humble presentation. It's all portrayed with an adorably*Gasp* oh my goodness! What a cute film this was! Screen legends, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, demonstrate that they still got major acting chops as they play the two main leads in a story that is told with a sweet, mature, and humble presentation. It's all portrayed with an adorably serious heart.… Expand

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LeZee

Feb 4, 2018

Not about the first love! The other way around!

This is one of my favourite genre, the tales about aging people. A rare kind. The lives, the struggle they go through, really melts my heart. So I won't miss such films. I have a long list of such films which are my favourites. And this isNot about the first love! The other way around!

This is one of my favourite genre, the tales about aging people. A rare kind. The lives, the struggle they go through, really melts my heart. So I won't miss such films. I have a long list of such films which are my favourites. And this is another fine one to add to it.

Superb casting. I could not miss Redford films of the recent. At this age, he's phenomenal. And Jane Fonda was equally great. Another Netflix's wonderful product directed by an Indian filmmaker. This was about two old guys, been single for a long time. Now trying to connect, with some effort, they develop an understanding relationship. But not everybody around is happy with it. They have to face them and keep it going. Afterall at this age what they have set to lose!

More like a real life event. There's no any twist, not like a surprising incident. Just beautiful, a kind of love tale. Obviously a little slow, but totally worth it. If you like drama films, this will be a treat to watch. Based on the book of the same name. My only issue was, the end was ordinary, though an acceptable one. Surely, the families, the middle aged members and above would enjoy it. One of the best films of the year.

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moviemitch96

Oct 1, 2017

A small, yet well-acted and often times thought-provoking little film. Robert Redford and Jane Fonda do what they do best, which is work off of each other's chemistry beautifully. Overall, their worthy fourth pairing together is all the reason to watch this otherwise pretty straightforwardA small, yet well-acted and often times thought-provoking little film. Robert Redford and Jane Fonda do what they do best, which is work off of each other's chemistry beautifully. Overall, their worthy fourth pairing together is all the reason to watch this otherwise pretty straightforward and easygoing drama.… Expand

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Erich

Feb 4, 2019

In case you're wondering, I don't consider a 6 to be a bad review; to me a 6 can be a solidly entertaining, even touching movie, as this one was to me. It just didn't rise to higher levels. One thing i liked about it, a special quality and rather rare for cinema, was its deliberately (yetIn case you're wondering, I don't consider a 6 to be a bad review; to me a 6 can be a solidly entertaining, even touching movie, as this one was to me. It just didn't rise to higher levels. One thing i liked about it, a special quality and rather rare for cinema, was its deliberately (yet casually) slow pace. It was refreshing to see a movie that wasn't calibrated as though its audience had a slow attention span, condescendingly assumed to have little patience for scenes that proceed at the speed of... ordinary life. Granted, it was at times surreal to see Robert Redford and Jane Fonda inhabiting the roles of normal small town retirees, widower and widow, and neighbors for decades who had never before really gotten to know each other. But once you relax and suspend your critical faculties, honed over years of modern movie-watching to be expertly cynical, it becomes as heartwarming as a cup of cocoa from a grandmother you've taken for granted. As the movie unfolded its steady, calm story, I became quietly amazed at how deftly Redford underplayed his role, and came to appreciate it as an act of generosity on his part, breathing life into his character with zero histrionics; or, to put it another way, he seemed to have achieved the role without "acting". Fonda's persona, meanwhile, was delightful in small, circumscribed ways, she too avoiding the easy cliches that would have hammed it up. Together, in long scenes of merely talking to each other -- not with fast-paced, glib repartee, but through dialogues that allowed the beauty of our day-to-day banality an unstudied elegance -- they grew on each other, and on me. And I'm sure glad at the end... well, I don't want to spoil it.… Expand

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tjhart

Jul 11, 2019

Based on the book by James Haruf, Redford and Fonda seem mismatched for their roles in both appearance and temperament. But they do bring an earnestness to their task so, overall, they are not a net minus. What does cause this movie to fail is the Hollywood gloss put on everything. This is aBased on the book by James Haruf, Redford and Fonda seem mismatched for their roles in both appearance and temperament. But they do bring an earnestness to their task so, overall, they are not a net minus. What does cause this movie to fail is the Hollywood gloss put on everything. This is a story about the beauty found in simplicity, the beauty found in facing the challenge of aging, death, and in taking stock of past errors. In the book their exists a vein of major conflict --blackmail, even -- that exists between Fonda's character Addie and her son. It is the lone place where there is even the hint of hero/villain and for some reason it has been omitted in the movie. There are other issues: the town is larger, prettier, that the one described in the book, they make changes arbitrarily in matters of fact (Louis, Redford in the book wanted to be a poet and worked summers as a house painter, in the movie he aspired to be a painter and worked summers in construction) These are minor but like switching the baby mice for a train set s a vehicle to engage the boy, the question of why comes up. Sorry, but the writers for the movie script should have left well enough alone.… Expand

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