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On Golden Pond
Directed by
Mark Rydell
PG
1981
1h 49m
Drama
,
Romance
7.6
91%
87%
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Curmudgeon Norman is estranged from his daughter Chelsea. Nevertheless, at Golden Pond he and his wife agree to look after Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.
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Cast of On Golden Pond
Katharine Hepburn
Ethel Thayer
Henry Fonda
Norman Thayer Jr.
Jane Fonda
Chelsea Thayer Wayne
Doug McKeon
Billy Ray
Dabney Coleman
Bill Ray
William Lanteau
Charlie Martin
Christopher Rydell
Sumner Todd
Troy Garity
Young Boy on Jetty (uncredited)
Mark Rydell
Director
Ernest Thompson
Writer
Bruce Gilbert
Producer
On Golden Pond Ratings & Reviews
Mister Arn
May 14, 2025
Two great actors deliver performances worth seeing in a story about aging. To really enjoy this film, wait till you have grandkids before watching.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
This isn't material for actors, no matter what their age. It's material for milking tears from an audience.
New York Daily News
Rex Reed
Every time the movie almost reduces its audience to sobbing, there's clever laugh to ease the tension and bring everyone back to reality. It's a marvelous triumph.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Elston Brooks
Here is the almost perfect motion picture.
Miami Herald
Bill Cosford
Though On Golden Pond is a shameless bit of manipulation... the movie is relentlessly enjoyable.
Detroit Free Press
Jack Mathews
If you can check your cynicism at the door, here's a two-hour tonic guaranteed to lift your spirits.
Los Angeles Times
Sheila Benson
Its themes of lifelong love, loyalty and devotion, and of lifelong hunger for what is needed from a parent, are emotional depth charges.
Arizona Republic
Michael Maza
On Golden Pond is fearlessly sentimental. Like a bullet, it travels a highly predictable arc, and goes the distance on energy expended at the beginning of its flight.
Tampa Bay Times
Ronald Boyd
If ever there's been a motion picture collaboration worth waiting for, Fonda and Hepburn in On Golden Pond is it.
Boston Globe
Michael Blowen
As a curious, stilted tribute to Fonda, Hepburn and Fonda, "On Golden Pond" serves its purpose. But, as drama, it's only one tiny bubble away from pure soap opera.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
The intrusions of real life give the film a resonance it would not otherwise enjoy, and add to the emotions it touches.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Pollack
It tugs the heart as few films of recent years have done, and I defy anyone to see it without at least a few tears.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
A premature obituary, some have carped. So what. I can think of very little I'd rather read than the delicate lines in these two adored, now-aged faces.
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
Despite the amusing lessons on forgiveness, mortality, seeking approval, and compromising, there's a slowness to the picture that betrays its repetitive misadventures.
Variety
Variety Staff
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.
Associated Press
Bob Thomas
On Golden Pond is a rare and beautiful movie, radiating with humanity. Ernest Thompson has adroitly adapted his successful play to the screen, adding pictorial scope without sacrificing the human interplay.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
There is a natural rhythm to the film that makes its own quiet, life-affirming statement.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
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.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Watching the movie, I felt I was witnessing something rare and valuable.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
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.
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