Fresh
A pleasant film about an old man who rejuvenates himself on a cross-country trek.
Variety Staff, Variety
Overview
Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s who has lived in the Upper West Side of New York City all his life. When his building is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States — visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.
Director and cast
- Paul Mazursky Director
- Art Carney as Harry Coombes
- Herbert Berghof as Jacob Rivetowski
- Ellen Burstyn as Shirley Mallard
- Geraldine Fitzgerald as Jessie Stone
- Larry Hagman as Eddie Coombes
- Chief Dan George as Sam Two Feathers
- Melanie Mayron as Ginger
- Philip Bruns as Burt Coombes
- Josh Mostel as Norman Coombes
- Arthur Hunnicutt as Wade Carlton
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Mazursky has escaped Fellini's shadow; when everyone's back from going to 'look for America', he might have something interesting to say.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh
It's not easy to make comedies that work as drama, too. But Carney's acting is so perceptive that it helps this material succeed.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
The muted style robs the picture of the liberating point it's meant to make: that imaginative energy transcends the generations.
Nora Sayre, New York Times
Rotten
You may find much of this, despite the apparent sincerity, too cutesy and self-satisfied for its own good.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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