Review of On Golden Pond (1981) by Rob A — 26 Jan 2014

A classic!! Top of the line performances from Katharine Hepburn (never seen her better) and Henry Fonda!!! Great family movie!

This review of On Golden Pond (1981) was written by Rob A on 26 Jan 2014.

On Golden Pond has generally received very positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

On Golden Pond (1981) Movie Reviews (491)
On Golden Pond (1981) Critic Reviews (14)
On Golden Pond (1981) User Reviews (477)

More Reviews of On Golden Pond

Review of On Golden Pond (1981)

By Cameron W (208) on 06 Jun 2013

On Golden Pond is a beautiful film that I dont think anyone can resist being emotionally attached to…

Read Review

Review of On Golden Pond (1981)

By John B (4,244) on 28 Jan 2014

Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn's farewell to the screen that provided so many wonderful memories is a jewel…

Read Review

Review of On Golden Pond (1981)

By Kevin R (2,184) on 09 Jul 2015

Life marches on. Norman and Ethel Thayer are an aging couple in their 80s that take summer vacations on the pond…

Read Review

Review of On Golden Pond (1981)

By Peter V (185) on 09 Feb 2018

A liberal confectionary, that accepts divorce, premarital sex, and profanity with a sweet charm, is still a very human one with the drama centering…

Read Review

Review of On Golden Pond (1981)

By David C (2,598) on 07 Jun 2014

On Golden Pond works through the same themes that occupied many big-time play adaptations between the 1950s and the 1980s…

Read Review

Review of On Golden Pond (1981)

By Dan M (2,128) on 31 May 2018

At first I was thinking this was going to be a boring movie about a bitter old couple on their retirement getaway, but it ended up being one…

Read Review

Review of On Golden Pond (1981)

By Orlok W (1,270) on 17 Jul 2014

A Constantly Complaining Old Man With His Doddering Old Wive Bring The Family To 'Golden Pond', Where They All Learn To Do Backflips…

Read Review

Review of On Golden Pond (1981)

By Simon G (367) on 05 Nov 2015

Sometimes drifts into sentimentality which borders on the cheesy (this feeling is particularly heightened by the score) but is saved by two…

Read Review

Review of On Golden Pond (1981)

By John Stanley (6) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 24 Jan 2016

None of these issues are fully resolved, but just enough ... and that’s what makes On Golden Pond cinema gold…

Read Review

Review of On Golden Pond (1981)

By Christopher E (506) on 20 Nov 2018

Beautiful moving drama with screen legends Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn putting in magical performances…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Death Takes a Holiday (1934)

By Alexander Z (607) on 09 Nov 2010

Another reviewer wrote that this movie is the definition of stilted. I was thinking the exact same thing when I watched it…

Read Review

Review of The First Beautiful Thing (2010)

By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 14 Apr 2011

It's fair to say that men in general and ardent Catholics in particular don't come off well…

Read Review

Review of Mother and Child (2009)

By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 03 May 2010

Like a math equation whose inevitability doesn't diminish its crisp clarity of truth...It unwraps its surprises in ways that pay off as the…

Read Review

Review of Life Itself (2018)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Sep 2018

Despite its title, Life Itself doesn’t revel so much in the joys and travails of life as it does in the shameless emotional manipulation…

Read Review

Review of The Swimmers (2022)

By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 18 Sep 2022

There’s an extraordinary story to be told here. It’s just a shame it had to be told in such an ordinary way…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Three Thousand Years of Longing

2022

65%84 Reviews

Love

2015

54%174 Reviews

Past Lives

2023

84%62 Reviews

Split

2017

71%1,218 Reviews

The Prodigy

2019

53%39 Reviews

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019

81%344 Reviews

No Time to Die

2021

74%254 Reviews

Blade Runner 2049

2017

80%2,332 Reviews

Oppenheimer

2023

85%310 Reviews

A Quiet Place

2018

76%1,685 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

On Golden Pond

1981

75%491 Reviews

Otis

2008

57%220 Reviews

Vampires: Los Muertos

2002

45%121 Reviews

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

1992

39%359 Reviews

The Last Boy Scout

1991

68%521 Reviews

Flowers in the Attic

2014

55%69 Reviews

Saving Private Ryan

1998

88%1,006 Reviews

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

1991

44%653 Reviews

Office Space

1999

75%845 Reviews

Ted 2

2015

57%944 Reviews