An average movie

For almost 20 years, I have been a huge fan of Robert De Niro’s work, I have been watching obsessively almost all his movies (I have managed to watch already 70 of his movies so far which is not that bad, I believe). Anyway, at the beginning of the 90’s, his career was still pretty good (at least, if you compare it to the poor movies he is making nowadays) but this movie was not one of his best. Basically, it is one of these flicks for which he gave quite a decent performance but, unfortunately, the plot was rather pedestrian and predictable. Still, De Niro and Fonda had some nice chemistry and they definitely made a cute couple. For Jane Fonda, this movie would be the end of her career, at least the first part of it. Indeed, she got married afterwards with Ted Turner for 10 years and came back to acting 15 years later. Unfortunately, her stellar career never really recovered from this long hiatus and she hasn’t done anything really interesting in the last 10 years (on the other hand, to make her come-back with the terribly underwhelming ‘Monster-in-Law’ was rather ill-advised). To conclude, even though it is nothing really amazing, I think it remains a decent drama and it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in Robert De Niro or Jane Fonda.

6/10