This film was ultimately not great despite its star power.
Paul (Robert Redford) and Corie (Jane Fonda) Bratter are newlyweds and are very different. He's a straight-laced attorney trying to make a name for himself while she's a free-spirit despite her cultured upbringing. Despite the problems with their fifth-floor walk-up (namely the hole in the skylight), she remains positive, he's super negative.
But everything comes to a head when Corie sets up her widowed mother, Ethel (the luminous Mildred Natwick) and their eccentric neighbor Victor (Charles Boyer) and he takes them on an adventure which Corie embraces and Paul remains a stick-in-the-mud, leaving Corie upset and crying for a divorce.
And the worst part is Paul doesn't fight for her, though he does use the whole the lease is in my name, so you get out, but he's sick and drunk and does something stupid, Corie saves him and kisses him despite his gross illness so they are happy in the end.
Despite the great performances, I found myself far more interested in Victor and Ethel's relationship than the main one, though the chemistry is great. However, I felt that both Paul and Corie were too immature for marriage and didn't value each other's personalities as they deserved, so ultimately, this film was a giant disappointment. Grade: B
Side Notes:
-It appears as though Corie doesn't have a job, which doesn't make sense, surely she would have had a job before the wedding, so why doesn't she have one now?
-Perhaps the most concerning line is that Corie proclaims she didn't know what love was before the honeymoon, which caused me to groan, they should have been in love before the honeymoon.
-Despite winning his first case, Paul's client is only awarded six cents.
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