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by Deborah H. Holdstein
from his play, insures success by casting Katherine Hepburn and Henry Fonda
as a loving couple in the twilight of their years. The three Oscars awarded the
film — for Hepburn and Henry Fonda as best actress and actor, and for
difficulties of growing old, the bonds between woman and man, the difficulties
of being someone in your own right and retaining that dignity throughout life.
Admittedly, these are all things that any audience "can relate to," and easily.
However, while the film poses these questions, it stubbornly refuses to treat
them with the depth or integrity they merit. The answers remain convenient,
reinforces the inevitable sentiment of the film. The context of that sentiment
Henry Fonda and his son and daughter, the plight of that deserving yet only
now rewarded actor who had never won an Oscar, and the well-wrought image
expectations formed before they've actually seen the film. In that sense,
perhaps we’re expected to fill in any developmental flaws regarding theme and