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The Way We Were

Everything seemed so important then... even love!

1973 · 1h 58m · PG Drama, Romance
Directed by Sydney Pollack

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Overview

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.

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65%
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Rotten

A distended, talky, redundant and moody melodrama.

Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten

A for effort; C for execution.

Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Fresh

It's easy to forgive the movie a lot because of Streisand. She's fantastic.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten

With the script glossing whole areas of confrontation (from the communist '30s to the McCarthy witch-hunts), it often passes into the haze of a nostalgic fashion parade.

Time Out

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