Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

cjudge-23429 The book was magical and the vast majority of it concerned children. The stupid romance between Streisand and Nolte was a very minor part of the book but became the entire movie. The vast majority of the novel which was about the kids was omitted. What was shown in no way captured the magical nature of the story. Ego Streisand ruined a very good tale.

tribalmama I'll start by saying that I had not read the book. Having nothing to compare the movie to, I enjoyed it very much. I was particularly captivated by Nick Nolte's portrayal and thought he was very good as a man emotionally crippled by his past. I felt he portrayed very well indeed, the many ways men deal with the suppression that they experience when trying to express emotions. We knew there was something wrong under the surface. I kept rooting for him to break through that wall. When he did, it was powerful.I think Barbara is an incredible woman who deserves credit for the whole scope of her talents and convictions. I thought she played her character with subtlety, not trying to pull the spotlight on to herself. Kudos to her for being persistent in her efforts to further women in the industry.

tieman64 Directed by Barbra Streisand, "The Prince of Tides" stars Nick Nolte as Tom Wingo, a man whose dysfunctional childhood has left him with severe psychological scars. When his sister attempts suicide, Tom comes into contact with Susan Lowenstein (Streisand), a psychologist with domestic problems of her own. The film was adapted from a novel by Pat Conroy."The Prince of Tides" is channelling the Southern Gothic fiction of Tennessee Wiliams and William Faulkner. In this regard, Streisand's film is proudly melodramatic, overcooked and larger-than-life. There's no subtlety here, just one ridiculously bombastic moment after the other. Whilst this is the film's largest flaw, it's also its biggest asset; southern melodrama has always tended towards the voluptuous. With fine performances by a scenery chewing Nolte and an austere Blythe Danner.7/10 – Worth one viewing. See "The Beguiled".

ashcrda First of all, the movie is a Barbara Streisand vehicle and little more. She completely misses the point of the book and may as well glide around without her feet touching the ground. Love the woman, but her interpretation of the novel falls to ego.I've read the novel repeatedly and it tells a story of family tragedy intermixed with repeated tales of heroics that nourish the soul. Barbara's version takes away most of the message, avoids the subject and meaning of the novel, and merely sets up pretty stage "Sometimes a Great Notion," by Ken Kesey. Superb book that far exceeds his "One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest." That one misses the point by having the main character focus on the female lead, a kind of "claim the woman" ending. Nolte's ending utterance, "Lowenstein, Lowenstein," has the same impact. Neither the book nor the movie are about possessing a woman, or about a meaningful affair with someone. If men are going to be defined by their relationship with women it will be as tragic as the woman as property attitude men express.After seeing the movie and reading the novel repeatedly, I chose Hunting Island, SC for a Fall vacation. As you drive across SC there is a fall point, a descent from the uplands of the western half, down to sea level. You smell the salt marshes before you see them. When you begin driving through them you recognize how accurately they were captured in the story. I remember my heart racing as we entered salt marsh county and the movie's setting came alive all around us. If you leave your car and walk the boardwalks through the marsh you come to realize that this is the heart of life on earth. The fecundity of the marshes, washed by the ocean during high tide, helps you understand the primordial ooze that nurtured our ancient ascent from minuscule sea creature to hominid. See the movie, visit the marshes.