Barefoot in the park

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Movie
German title Barefoot in the park
Original title Barefoot in the Park
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1967
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Gene Saks
script Neil Simon
production Hal B. Wallis at
Paramount Pictures
music Neal Hefti
camera Joseph LaShelle
cut William A. Lyon
occupation

Barefoot in the Park is a 1967 American comedy film directed by Gene Saks and starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda . It is the movie version of the successful eponymous Broadway - Comedy by Neil Simon .

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The film begins with the honeymoon of the very correct and solid lawyer Paul Bratter, who has just started his career as an ambitious lawyer in New York . But the calm in his life is over, because his sometimes excited bride Corie has fun and adventure as a principle of life. After the stormy honeymoon in the hotel room, the real married life begins and the Bratters move into their first apartment together in Greenwich Village . Unfortunately, this apartment turns out to be old and airy, there are leaks in the roof, and the neighborhood is made up of nothing but weirdos. Another problem is that the house has no elevator, but the Bratters live on the fifth floor - to the chagrin of the young couple and their guests.

To Paul's displeasure, Corie befriends her upper neighbor, the aging, eccentric bon vivant Victor Velasco. Corie then got the idea to couple Velasco, who has been married four times, to her mother Ethel. The evening for the young couple with their mother and Velasco is eventful, but not necessarily pleasant. In an unusual Albanian restaurant you will get to know a lot of culinary specialties through Velasco. But while Corie is doing a belly dance in the restaurant, Paul is rather repulsed by the restaurant's special features. The disappointed Corie then accuses him of being a philistine and that they do not fit together with their different characters . He wouldn't even dare to walk barefoot through the park like her. There is a real crisis between the couple and they want to get a divorce, Paul leaves the apartment. Corie gets advice from her mother to approach Paul a little too. Corie then goes in search of Paul, who is now heavily drunk and runs barefoot through the park.

Paul and Corie return to the apartment, but the completely drunk lawyer climbs onto the roof and almost falls down several times before Corie can get him down safely. The couple reconciles - and Cories' mother, who has suddenly become young again, and Velasco have now found each other.

Reviews

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Barefoot in the Park received mostly positive reviews from film reviews.

"Light comedy based on a Broadway success by Neil Simon, lively staged and acted."

- Lexicon of international film

“The friction in a young marriage is described in an amusing and lively manner. Nice entertainment from 16. "

- Protestant film observer

Awards

  • Mildred Natwick received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress . The character actress had previously played the role of the mother on Broadway for several years.
  • Jane Fonda received a BAFTA nomination for "Best Foreign Actress"
  • Simon received a Writers Guild of America nomination .
  • 1968 Laurel Awards
    • fourth place best comedy
    • second place for Jane Fonda as best female. Comedian
    • fifth place for Robert Redford for best male comedian
    • fourth place for Mildred Natwick as best female. Supporting actress

literature

  • Neil Simon : Barefoot in the park. A new comedy (Original title: Barefoot in the Park ). German by Gina Kaus . [Not for sale stage manuscript.] Stauffacher, Zurich approx. 1980, 200 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b [1] at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on February 5, 2015
  2. ↑ Barefoot in the Park in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  3. ↑ Barefoot in the park. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 28, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 424/1967