Synopsis
Girl next door, activist, so-called traitor, fitness tycoon, Oscar winner: Jane Fonda has lived a life of controversy, tragedy and transformation – and she’s done it all in the public eye. An intimate look at one woman’s singular journey.
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Cast
- Jane FondaSelf
- Tom HaydenSelf - Organizer, Politician, Author
- Robert RedfordSelf - Actor
- Lily TomlinSelf - Actor
- Ted TurnerSelf - Media Mogul, Philanthropist
- Paula WeinsteinSelf - Producer
- Troy GaritySelf - Son
- Sam WaterstonSelf - Actor
- Mary Luana WilliamsSelf - Daughter
- Malcolm VadimSelf - Grandson
Recommendations
- 100
Wall Street Journal
It’s hard to overstate the pleasures of this film or, more precisely, this encounter with its subject. - 91
The A.V. Club
Throughout, the documentary offers glowing praise of Fonda that falls just short of fawning. Frankly, it’s difficult not to be impressed. Seventy-eight at the time of filming, the formidable Fonda personifies courage and strength in her interviews, even as she reveals tremendous vulnerabilities. - 90
TheWrap
Hers is a lot of life to try to capture in one movie, but Jane Fonda in Five Acts certainly covers her emotional arc with thoroughness and compassion. - 88
RogerEbert.com
Fonda’s own interviews are candid and insightful. Her regrets about the way she allowed herself to be used by the North Vietnamese are sincere but practiced. - 88
Movie Nation
Lacy’s impressively thorough film forces anybody willing to watch it to reconsider her, measure her life’s work and legacy against that of her iconic father and appreciate the screen legend and cultural force she has been. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Notwithstanding the talking-head commentary of friends, colleagues and exes, this is very much a first-person story, taking its narrative cues from Fonda's self-searching 2005 autobiography. - 80
Variety
Lively, confessional, and entertaining. - 80
Los Angeles Times
All in all, Jane Fonda in Five Acts proves a captivating, extremely well-told and crafted, decidedly fitting tribute to a Hollywood legend, fighter and survivor who just might surprise us one day with a “sixth act.”
