On Golden Pond
Cantankerous retiree Norman Thayer and his conciliatory wife, Ethel, spend summers at their New England vacation home on the shores of idyllic Golden Pond. Their solitude is interrupted when their daughter arrives with her fiance and her son.
16 May 1905, Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
12 November 1922, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, USA
1963, USA
12 May 1907, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
21 December 1937, New York City, New York, USA
7 July 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 January 1932, Austin, Texas, USA
10 June 1966, Pompton Plains, New Jersey, USA
June 11, 2007
This family melodrama about aging, mortality, and reconciliation is more significant as a social than artistic event: It's the only teaming of Henry Fonda (who won an Oscar) with daughter Jane (who produced it for him) and also with screen icon Hepburn.
February 04, 2008
Without question, these are major, meaty roles for Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda, and there could have been little doubt that the two would work superbly together.
January 20, 2015
The truth of its characters and emotions carry the film from start to finish.
April 03, 2005
Wonderful to get one last sweet visit with Mr. Fonda and Ms. Hepburn.
January 02, 2011
Valuable lessons in loving one's family members.
June 07, 2011
When it sometimes seems the whole society has spiritually decamped for Tinseltown, the movie offers the hope that people can come home again-at least for a visit.
January 26, 2006
Two of Hollywood's best-loved veterans deserved a far better swan song than this sticky confection.
February 04, 2008
Fonda was 75 when this picture was made and must have known he didn't have much time. There could have been no finer final curtain for him than this.
August 30, 2004
On Golden Pond is a mixed blessing, but it offers one performance of rare quality and three others that are very good. That's not half-bad.
December 28, 2004
Stellar cast in left field family values classic.
October 23, 2004
Watching the movie, I felt I was witnessing something rare and valuable.
