Un uomo tormentato si confida con la psichiatra che ha in cura la sorella con tendenze suicide. Racconta la loro storia familiare e nel mentre si innamora di lei.Un uomo tormentato si confida con la psichiatra che ha in cura la sorella con tendenze suicide. Racconta la loro storia familiare e nel mentre si innamora di lei.Un uomo tormentato si confida con la psichiatra che ha in cura la sorella con tendenze suicide. Racconta la loro storia familiare e nel mentre si innamora di lei.
- Candidato a 7 Oscar
- 3 vittorie e 18 candidature totali
- Savannah Wingo (age 10)
- (as Nancy Atchison)
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- QuizWhen NBC broadcast the movie in 1995, Barbra Streisand called the network mid-movie to request they lower the volume on the commercials, which were loud compared to the relatively quiet movie. The weekend operations manager obliged, reducing them 2 decibels.
- BlooperSally's Southern accent appears and disappears as the film progresses.
- Citazioni
Herbert Woodruff: That Stradivarius is worth over a million dollars!
Tom Wingo: Well, if I drop it, it won't be worth shit.
Susan Lowenstein: Don't do it, Tom.
Tom Wingo: Apologize to your wife, Herbert.
Herbert Woodruff: You're bluffing.
Tom Wingo: I may be, but its a powerful bluff, isn't it, asshole?
[Tom throws fiddle high in the air]
Herbert Woodruff: [screaming] I'm sorry, Susan!
[Tom catches fiddle]
Tom Wingo: Sincerity becomes you, Herbie. Now apologize to me for your unforgivable breach of etiquette at the dinner table tonight, you possum-bred cocksucker.
Herbert Woodruff: I'm very sorry, Tom.
- Versioni alternativeLaserdisc version contains an alternate end credits sequence with Barbra Streisand's vocal performance of "Places That Belong To You" (which was replaced in the final film by new end title music by James Newton Howard after Streisand felt that to include the song would bring back the Dr. Lowenstein character and destroy the focal point of the story, which would be the Tom Wingo character). Also, alternate versions of the Tom and Susan affair scenes, and the following deleted scenes (presented in a separate supplementary section at the end of the film):
- Tom remembering his late brother Luke;
- Tom visiting Savannah in the hospital early in the film;
- Tom confronting his father Henry;
- Tom sending flowers to Dr. Lowenstein;
- Lila being ridiculed as "white trash";
- and a love affair montage.
There are so many scenes in The Prince of Tides that are moving and memorable, and they greatly outshine the less-than-stellar elements of the film. Nick Nolte plays a family man whose family life isn't particularly stable. He's spent a lifetime burying the secrets of the past, but when his sister, Melinda Dillon, tries to commit suicide, he travels from South Carolina to New York City and meets her therapist, Barbra Streisand. He and Barbra frequently clash, and while he is given very good lines to say, the way he says them is even better than they were written. He's quick to raise his voice, and when he does, it's clear he's releasing decades of pent-up emotion through his throat. Even when he's being a loving father to his three children, you can see the unresolved tension on his face.
You'd think it would be impossible to play against Nick's powerful performance and not give a very good one, but Blythe Danner proves my supposition wrong. She looks very pretty and has an absolutely adorable hairdo, but her acting leaves much to be desired. Then again, when you're watching Nick Nolte-who lost the gold to Anthony Hopkins for sixteen minutes of The Silence of the Lambs-you don't really care about Blythe Danner. Kate Nelligan, who plays Nick's mother, does do a very good job, so if you're a fan, you might want to see her only Oscar-nominated performance.
Normally, I don't really like movies that flash back and forth between the present and the past, but it's only because most directors don't handle the transitions very well. Ms. Streisand masters the difficult task, and every time the film flashes back to Nick's childhood, it's in an inventive, intriguing style. The "dual timeline" narrative is extremely popular nowadays, so if you like that style, you'll be in a great position to appreciate this marvelously crafted film. Before you rent it, though, just know that it's very heavy. You'll probably need to bring your Kleenexes, and you'll feel unsettled more than once. You might not want to watch this with your parents, and you should definitely put the kids to bed before movie night starts. It's extremely heavy.
My one problem with the film is the upsetting scenes involving child actors. I've always maintained that Hollywood should pass a "child labor law" where if a child is under the age of fifteen, they cannot be employed; instead, a computer-generator child actor should be used. I could go on for hours about the damage acting does to children, but I'll refrain. In 1991, computer technology wasn't very advanced, but I still feel the child actors should have been used as infrequently as possible. I recently read Ms. Streisand's memoir, and she insisted the section I'm referring to be included in the final screenplay. There were versions that wouldn't have used the children as much, and I firmly believe the movie would have been as effective if the section were revealed in dialogue with Nick instead of a visual flashback with the child actors. I'm sure there are audience members who disagree, but I just can't watch this movie (I've only seen it once) because I think of the emotional repercussions of the children. Besides that, Ms. Streisand's directing is flawless, and during the Hot Toasty Rag Awards, the board members proudly and unanimously awarded her Best Director.
Kiddy warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to upsetting situations involving children and adult material, I wouldn't let my kids watch this movie. Also, there may or may not be a rape scene.
- HotToastyRag
- 19 giu 2018
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- Budget
- 30.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 74.787.599 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 10.035.412 USD
- 29 dic 1991
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 74.787.599 USD