Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

On Golden Pond [videorecording] / an ITC Films/IPC Films production ; screenplay by Ernest Thompson ; produced by Bruce Gilbert ; directed by Mark Rydell.

Edition:

Special ed.

Publisher, Date:

[Santa Monica, Calif.] : Artisan Home Entertainment, [2003]

Description:

1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG.

Subjects:

Aging -- Drama.

Older people -- Drama.

Intergenerational relations -- Drama.

Families -- Drama.

Feature films.

Closed captioning.

Other Author:

Thompson, Ernest, 1949-

Gilbert, Bruce, 1947-

Rydell, Mark, 1934-

Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003.

Fonda, Henry, 1905-1982.

Fonda, Jane, 1937-

McKeon, Doug, 1966-

Coleman, Dabney, 1932-2024

Lanteau, William, 1922-1993.

Rydell, Christopher, 1963-

Garity, Troy.

Williams, Billy. 1929-

Wolfe, Robert L.

Grusin, Dave.

Jeakins, Dorothy.

Grimes, Stephen.

Sweeney, Matthew, 1952-2018

ITC Films (Firm)

IPC Films (Firm)

Artisan Home Entertainment (Firm)

Notes:

DVD release of the 1981 motion picture.

Based on the play by Ernest Thompson.

Region 1; widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

Special features include: Reflections on Golden Pond (documentary); commentary tracks by the writer and the director; Katherine Hepburn tribute documentary.

Director of photography, Billy Williams ; editor, Robert L. Wolfe ; music, David Grusin ; costume designer, Dorothy Jeakins ; production designer, Stephen Grimes ; special effects supervisor, Matthew Sweeney.

Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman, William Lanteau, Christopher Rydell, Troy Garity.

DVD.

Closed-captioned. In English with optional English subtitles.

Academy Awards, USA, 1981: Best Actress (Katharine Hepburn); Best Actor (Henry Fonda); Best Screenplay (Ernest Thompson).

Publisher Number:

14781

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

145946

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE On Golde

Medium:

[videorecording]