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'70s
Outstanding film with a super star cast including Henry Fonda, Paul Newman, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin, and Richard Jaeckel. It’s a "big" outdoors picture, beautifully shot in Oregon. Newman plays son to hard-ass, hard-driving Fonda, father and patriarch to a dedicated family of loggers. Beautiful scenery and spectacular work scenes of the difficulty and dangers of logging. Warning: if you thought the death of the Ewok was too hard to take, you're gonna blubber and howl watching SAGN!
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Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) PG
"Never give a inch" was the motto of the Stampers of Oregon. And live it they did!
Action | Adventure | Drama
Director: Paul Newman
Actors: Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 69% with 89 votes
Runtime: 1:54
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Critical reception Vincent Canby of The New York Times called it "an extremely interesting, if impure (happily impure, I might add) example of a genre of action film that flourished in the 1930s in movies about tuna fishermen, bush pilots, high-wire repairmen and just about any physical pursuit you can think of . . . As in Howard Hawks's Only Angels Have Wings, these films are, at their best, considerably less simple-minded than they sound—being expressions of lives lived almost entirely in terms of rugged, essentially individualistic professionalism . . . Mr. Newman . . . has been remarkably successful both in creating vivid, quite complicated characters and in communicating the sense of beautiful idiocy that is the strength of the two older Stampers. As he showed in Rachel, Rachel, Mr. Newman knows how to direct actors . . . [His] handling of the logging and action sequences . . . is also surprisingly effective, not because of any contemporary fanciness but because of what looks like a straight-forward confidence in the subject. My only real objection to the film, I think, is a certain impatience with the screenplay, which lumberingly sets up almost a very physical and emotional crisis that can (and, indeed) must erupt before this kind of movie can be said to have decently met its obligations." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film three out of four stars and described Newman as "a director of sympathy and a sort of lyrical restraint. He rarely pushes scenes to their obvious conclusions, he avoids melodrama, and by the end of Sometimes a Great Notion, we somehow come to know the Stamper family better than we expected to." Quentin Tarantino called it "a good somewhat compromised movie, that is justly famous for one of the greatest scenes in early seventies cinema... This isn’t an attempt to turn a great novel into a equally great film. It’s simply an effort to take the material in the novel and fashion a movie out of it. The problem lies in the fact that the actors do such a good job creating the family dynamic of these selfish hard heads, you wish the production attacked the material from the outset with more ambition." The film has a rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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