The way we were / Columbia Pictures and Rastar Productions, Inc. ; producer, Ray Stark ; director, Sydney Pollack ; writer, Arthur Laurents.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 02850 | Columbia TriStar Home VideoLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: Chinese, English, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Edition: Special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 0767821688
- 9780767821681
- Way we were (Motion picture)
- Music, Marvin Hamlisch.
- 1973 Best song, Best score Academy Award winners.
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Main Library | DVD | New | DRAMA WAY WE W | Checked out | 05/23/2024 | 33111010004659 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Gorgeous goyish guy" meets Jewish radical girl in Sydney Pollack's glossy romance. In 1937, frizzy-haired Red co-ed Katie Morosky (Barbra Streisand) briefly captures the attention of preppy jock Hubbell Gardiner (Robert Redford) with her passionate pacifism, while the writing talent beneath his privileged exterior entrances her. Almost eight years later, the two are reunited in New York, when well-coiffed leftist radio worker Katie spies military officer Hubbell snoozing in a nightclub. Through her force of will, and in spite of his smug rich friends, the two opposites fall in love, sparring over Katie's activist zeal and Hubbell's writerly ambivalence after a failed first novel. They head to Hollywood so that Hubbell can write a screenplay for his buddy-turned-producer J.J. (Bradford Dillman). But the House Committee on Un-American Activities' Communist witch hunt in 1947 tears the pair apart, as a pregnant Katie refuses to keep silent about the jailing of the Hollywood Ten, while a faithless Hubbell decides to save his career. When the two meet again at the dawn of the '60s, TV hack Hubbell and A-bomb protestor Katie feel the old pull, but they have to decide if it's worth the grief. Although blacklisted writers had returned to Hollywood -- and won Oscars -- by the early 1970s, the HUAC sections of Arthur Laurents's screenplay were still considered dicey, resulting in substantial cuts; Laurents reportedly blamed star Redford for not fighting them hard enough. Regardless of the edits, and critics' complaints about the film's schlockiness, 1973 audiences went for the well-executed and still politically tinged weepie, turning The Way We Were into one of the most popular films of 1973 and Redford into a major heartthrob. Streisand won an Oscar nomination for Best Actress and the Streisand-sung title tune won for Best Song. Despite the eviscerated politics, The Way We Were poignantly captures the insoluble dilemma of reconciling private desires with public awareness. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
DVD, digitally remastered audio & anamorphic video; widescreen, dual layer, English 5.1 (Dolby digital) and 2-channel (Dolby surround).
In English; subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai; closed-captioned.
Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Viveca Lindfors, Herb Edelman, Murray Hamilton, Patrick O'Neal, Lois Chiles.
Music, Marvin Hamlisch.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1973.
MPAA rating: PG.
The romance and marriage of opposites-- the love that binds them together and the differences that tear them apart. A love story from college to Hollywood in the thirties, forties, and fifties.
1973 Best song, Best score Academy Award winners.
Features include: theatrical trailers ; scene access ; director Sidney Pollack's commentary ; new making-of documentary "Lookin back" ; interactive menus ; talent files ; bonus trailers ; production notes.