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- 1973
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
- 1973
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
Summary Two disparate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Directed By: Sydney Pollack
- 1973
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
- 1973
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
The Way We Were
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7.2
Where to Watch
Summary Two disparate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Directed By: Sydney Pollack
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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55% Positive
6 Reviews
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45% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
61
55% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
45% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Laurents' screenplay has a shocking sense of character truth, and The Way We Were says things that no one else has dared to say in a major Hollywood movie.
An engrossing, if occasionally ludicrous, hit tearjerker with Pollack, Streisand, and Redford doing a good job of bringing Arthur Laurents' script to the screen.
Essentially just a love story, and not sturdy enough to carry the burden of both radical politics and a bittersweet ending.
Redford and Streisand are the whole show, so scenes with various supporting characters drag. But Pollack’s film still manages to function as a glossy rebuke to the Hollywood standard of the unlikely romance.
With the script glossing whole areas of confrontation (from the communist '30s to the McCarthy witch-hunts), it often passes into the haze of a nostalgic fashion parade.
By, some peculiar alchemy, The Way We Were turns into the kind of compromised claptrap that Hubbell is supposed to be making within the film and that we're meant to think is a sellout. It is.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
7.2
69% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
7.2
69% Positive
9 Ratings
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31% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
David di Donatello Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
