Synopsis
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
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Cast
- Barbra StreisandKatie Morosky
- Robert RedfordHubbell Gardner
- Bradford DillmanJ.J.
- Lois ChilesCarol Ann
- Patrick O'NealGeorge Bissinger
- Viveca LindforsPaula Reisner
- Allyn Ann McLerieRhea Edwards
- Murray HamiltonBrooks Carpenter
- Herb EdelmanBill Verso
- Diana EwingVicki Bissinger
Recommendations
- 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Laurents' screenplay has a shocking sense of character truth, and The Way We Were says things that no one else has dared to say in a major Hollywood movie. - 78
Austin Chronicle
This tear-jerkiest of rom-coms about a couple struggling through fundamental differences will hit you right in the feels. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
Essentially just a love story, and not sturdy enough to carry the burden of both radical politics and a bittersweet ending. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
An engrossing, if occasionally ludicrous, hit tearjerker with Pollack, Streisand, and Redford doing a good job of bringing Arthur Laurents' script to the screen. - 67
The A.V. Club
Redford and Streisand are the whole show, so scenes with various supporting characters drag. But Pollack’s film still manages to function as a glossy rebuke to the Hollywood standard of the unlikely romance. - 60
Empire
It all adds up to just another glossy Love Story. - 60
Time Out
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. - 60
Chicago Reader
A film about marriage that works reasonably well as a star vehicle for Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand, but fails resoundingly as the caustic social comment director Sydney Pollack and writer Arthur Laurents obviously intended.
