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On Golden Pond / Lord Grade ; ITC Films/IPC Films production ; screenplay by Ernest Thompson ; produced by Bruce Gilbert ; directed by Mark Rydell.
LIBRA DVD 012 712 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thompson, Ernest, 1949---Film adaptations.
- Thompson, Ernest.
- Thompson, Ernest, 1949-.
- Aging--Drama.
- Aging.
- Older people--Drama.
- Older people.
- Intergenerational relations--Drama.
- Intergenerational relations.
- Fathers and daughters--Drama.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([8] pages ; 19 cm)
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Special edition ; widescreen format.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : Carlton International Media : Artisan Home Entertainment, [2003]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD -NTSC; Dolby digital 5.1; Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- Dolby digital 5.1
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Shows the conflicts between three generations as the Thayers, a crotchety old professor and his wife, spend their summer together on a lake in New England. The couple agrees to mind their estranged daughter's boyfriend's child, while daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging.
- Participant:
- Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman, William Lanteau, Christopher Rydell, Troy Garity.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Billy Williams ; editor, Robert L. Wolfe ; music, David Grusin.
- Notes:
- Based on the play by Ernest Thompson.
- Aspect ratio 1.85:1.
- DVD release of the 1981 motion picture.
- Special features: documentary, Reflections on Golden Pond a trbute to the work of cinematographer Billy Williams; commentary Track with writer Ernest Thompson, the writer of the Broadway play; Katherine Hepburn tribute documentary.
- Academy Awards, USA, 1981: Best Actress (Katharine Hepburn); Best Actor (Henry Fonda); Best Screenplay (Ernest Thompson).
- OCLC:
- 53465015
- Publisher Number:
- 012236147817
- 14781 Artisan Home Entertainment
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