Remember the Megan Kelly/Jane Fonda dustup? Jane was on the show to promote the movie Our Souls at Night.
Those of you of a certain age, ok make that 60ish, will enjoy the movie Our Souls at Night now showing on Netflix. If you are younger, don’t bother watching because you probably won’t “get it.” It being the dark hole of being older and alone. (Funny, but when you are younger you never, if rarely, think about being alone. In fact, being alone can sometimes be a good thing. As you get older though, it becomes the feeling you don’t want but yet can’t seem to avoid for one reason or another.)
For instance, in the very opening scene of Our Souls at Night you see Louis (Robert Redford) eating alone at a kitchen table and you immediately know the deal: home alone, set in one’s routine, eating T-V dinner and just doing life by the numbers. Been there.
Enter Addie (Jane Fonda) and things start to happen. (Some people say a woman’s to blame and in this case that is the truth.) She “propositions” him by asking if he wouldn’t mind sleeping over with her at night as a Friend With No Benefits. He accepts her offer and they go from there dealing with town gossips, family members, some of whom are not too keen on the idea, and their painful reconciliations with past issues. It’s funny and sad but all in all captures very well that point in your life where your yesterdays, tomorrows and todays all sort of blend together.
Good little movie. Nothing blows up and no histrionics but worth a look see.
I know it was Streisand and not Jane in The Way We Were but I always liked this Redford video as well as the song.