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Based on the hit Broadway play by Neil Simon, who made his screenwriting debut with this adaptation, Barefoot In The Park follows the lives of newlyweds Paul (Robert Redford) and Corie Bratter (Jane F... read more read more...onda) as they adjust to married life in a tiny Greenwich Village apartment. Paul is a buttoned-down, straight-arrow lawyer who's wound a little too tight, while Corie is an effervescent free spirit who won't let anything disturb her romantic bliss. Aside from the five-flight climb and the hole in their skylight, the Bratters must also contend with eccentric upstairs neighbor Victor Velasco (Charles Boyer), who must go through their apartment to get to his. Corie hatches a plot to get her mother (Mildred Natwick) together with Mr. Velasco, but the entire evening goes awry and even casts doubt on the viability of the Bratters' new marriage, as Corie tries unsuccessfully to loosen Paul up. All ends well, however, and Fonda and Redford are full of youthful appeal in this light domestic comedy. ~ Don Kaye, Rovi

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G, 1 hr. 46 min.

Directed by: Gene Saks

Release Date: January 1, 1967

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DVD Release Date: September 21, 1999

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Flixster Reviews (636)

  • jennifxu
    April 28, 2011
    jennifxu
    Jane Fonda really intrigues me as an actress. She's so obnoxious and noisy and loud and annoying it's no wonder Robert Redford couldn't tolerate her towards the end. But he eventually returns, drunk and barefoot in the park, because there's something truly compelling about her ..... read more. I wouldn't call it charm, more like spunk. This is a surprisingly vulgar movie, what with the time period and genre, and really gives you a picture of what it was like to live in the 1960s, slightly exaggerated of course.
  • kenstachnik
    December 21, 2010
    kenstachnik
    Some movies are so cute you giggle. I guffawed.
  • ajv2688
    December 9, 2010
    ajv2688
    An excellent comedy with an excellent cast and an excellent story. The story is actually more like a story for a drama, but all the funny things that happen make it a comedy, it's brilliant. This movie is fun, I really like it.
  • 76Majikat
    November 23, 2010
    76Majikat
    A subtle comedy with pleasing watchability. Easy viewing and entertaining with a great quirkyness.
  • arashxak
    October 4, 2008
    arashxak
    Well I rather watch stupid stoner comedies than watching this kind of romantic comedies
  • groaningbitch
    December 19, 2007
    groaningbitch
    "barefoot in the park" is one of the wittiest comedies tackling the complementariness of genders, as jack nicholson remarks in "as good as it gets": a woman is a man devoid of reasonability and self-constraint, if you wanna comprehend how woman functions, just to shed off reason ... read moreand discipline. it's probably the most sarcastic criticism on woman. ha. in the case of "barefoot in the park", this couple have the discord that fonda wanna walk barefoot in the park, but redford refuses becuz it's freezing cold in the squad that is utterly reasonable, no doubt about it.

    fonda's corie is a wild goose with naive opitimistism, that kind of person who would say "tomorrow is another day" with giggles..redford's paul is a properly conducted lawyer who believes in common sense and emotional maturity. and their bond is due to widely acknowledged "opposite attraction"..while corie's being adventrously whimsical, paul frowns in tranquill disapproval. their disgreement detonates when it comes to hooking corie's mother(mildred natwick) a blind date with the elderly bohemian wacko upstairs, who dines in various bizarrely exotic nauseatic cushine.

    it's the script of humorous dialogues that accomplishes the charm of this flick, and there're lots of facetious jokes. such as the laboriously climbing to their overcharged apartment with no bath tube and the loothole on the ceiling as well as a bunch of wacky neighbours. you gotta read between the lines to chew over this mildly suave sense of ridicules which belongs totally to the league of feminine-ness and only comprehended by man who has a irresonable spouse like that in the household.

    as for the concrete ideas of gender sphere in this flick, paul stands for the absolute reason; corie is the spontaneous romanticist. she demeans him as stuffed shirt, and he bombards her for the lack of rational sensibility. then corie cracks up for divorce, heart-broken paul runs amok. eventually they concede part of themselves as symmetry: distressed paul finally gets drunk then walks barefoot in the park; corie someway accepts mother's advice to give up a little bit of herself to take care of paul in their tiny shell to make him feel important.

    another parallel is the friendship of natwick as corie's mother and charles boyer as the quirky neighbor. one uptight conservative woman neutralizes herself with some unpredicatibility from another free-spirited man who also yields to behave himself in norm.

    reason and emotion should be appropriately counteracted with the solace of love and mutual concession that is the central wisdom of this play.
  • Redlats
    August 23, 2007
    Redlats
    Personally, I think Neil Simon's other works are better. I just don't feel a chemistry between Robert Redford and Jane Fonda.
  • garyX
    July 14, 2007
    garyX
    Another pleasant rom com typical of Neil Simon, but with a couple as appealing as Redford and Fonda, it couldn't really go wrong.
  • adfill7
    July 6, 2007
    adfill7
    A really funny movie that seems far ahead of its time. I would have rated it higher except that it had a perfect stopping point but kept on going. A classic.
  • SunilJawahir
    May 3, 2009
    SunilJawahir
    Very dated in a lot of it's issues but still good.

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Critic Reviews

Dave Kehr
January 1, 2000
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

Nothing special, but it's a decent example of a vanished genre - the small character comedy. Full Review

Emanuel Levy
March 25, 2012
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

Gene Saks' version of Neil Simon's smash hit but dramatically minor Broadway production is till a play, but Jane Fonda dn Redford are appealing and there's good chemistry between them as the newlyweds. Full Review

Steve Crum
March 8, 2008
Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com

Dated yes, but still joy to see Redford and Fonda early in careers.

Dennis Schwartz
January 31, 2007
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Saved only by the spirited performances of the four stars. Full Review

Nell Minow
October 21, 2004
Nell Minow, Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

Dated but delightful.

Ken Hanke
September 18, 2003
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Enjoyable star comedy version of the play.

May 30, 2008
Variety

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Bosley Crowther
May 9, 2005
Bosley Crowther, New York Times

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Philip Martin
February 5, 2005
Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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Audrey Rock-Richardson
January 14, 2005
Audrey Rock-Richardson, Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

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