The Way We Were (1973)
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.
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Merge Sydney Pollack's vintage romance "The Way We Were" with classic MGM musicals from the 1930s and 1940s and you'd get only the premise of "La La Land."
It propelled “The Way We Were” and “Sixteen Candles,” and fueled millions of “Twilight” obsessions.
Mendes and Minogue were both later additions, the latter warbling The Way We Were.
"One Day" is more of a piece with a march-of-time, thwarted love epic like "The Way We Were," and those in the date-movie crowd who've not read the book need to prepare for an extremely uncute ending.
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He goes to the "Beyond" section of the local Bed, Bath & Beyond and there encounters, behind the worst perm this side of Barbra Streisand in "The Way We Were," screwball scientist Morty (Christopher Walken), who takes him to "Way Beyond" and then "Way, Way Beyond," where the thing is stored.
Early in her career, in films like Funny Girl , The Way We Were , and 1976’s A Star is Born , Barbra Streisand basically played a variation of the same character over and over again — an unconventional beauty who was both deeply talented and touchingly insecure.
This is not one of director Sydney Pollack's ("The Way We Were"/"Sketches of Frank Gehry"/"Three Days of the Condor") better ventures, Oscar or not.
He never made big, splashy movies that garnered all the attention, but he made popular, well-crafted, often old-fashioned films like "Castle Keep," "Jeremiah Johnson," "The Way We Were," "Bobby Deerfield," "The Electric Horseman," "Absence of Malice," "Tootsie," "Out of Africa," "The Firm," "The Interpreter," and the film under discussion here, "Three Days of the Condor" (1975).
The film's director, Sydney Pollack , has worked with Redford three times before (they made the epic "Jeremiah Johnson" and the considerably less-than-epic " The Way We Were ").
Director Sydney Pollack and star Robert Redford have collaborated for a total of seven films ("This Property is Condemned"/"Out of Africa"/"The Way We Were"/"Jeremiah Johnson"/ "The Electric Horseman"/"They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"/"Havana") and have an excellent working relationship, which results in Redford giving an outstanding performance.