Fonda has wonderful chemistry with Segal in the film and together they manage to make the couple’s turning to crime understandable and as the title says “fun.”ĭirector: Elliot Silverstein. This story of a typical suburban couple who begin committing crimes due to the difficult financial times of the mid-seventies. Fonda’s controversial trips to Vietnam during this period made some people fearful of hiring the politically polarizing actress. This caper comedy marked Fonda’s return to major Hollywood films after a lull in her career of about six years. Starring George Segal, Ed McMahon, Dick Gautier. Fonda displays a sweet shy quality as well as strong comedic timing in the role that had won Sandy Dennis a Tony on Broadway.ĭirector: Ted Kotcheff Writers: David Giler, Jerry Belson, Mordecai Richler, and Gerald Gaiser. Complications arise when Fonda falls for a younger business associate (Dean Jones) who also uses the apartment Fonda lives in. Fonda plays a slightly neurotic young woman involved in an affair with an older married business man (Robards) who visits her “any Wednesday” for their affair. While this film version of the hit stage play is somewhat dated and doesn’t display the feminist ideals Fonda would come to represent in her later films, it is still a nice performance and one of Fonda’s best from her early romantic comedy days. Epstein (based on the play by Muriel Resnik.) Starring Jason Robards, Dean Jones, Rosemary Murphy. (And she seems to be really having fun in the film, which was something lacking in her films the last few years before her sabbatical from acting.)ĭirector: Robert Ellis Miller. Fonda displays the comedic chops that were so well used in her early career and also a confident matronly grand dame persona which heretofore was not evident in her acting range. She clearly is enjoying herself as the imposing wealthy mother who doesn’t want her son to marry Lopez. While many wondered why this lightweight film was what finally brought Fonda out of her self-imposed seclusion, Fonda herself always speaks highly of the film. Starring Jennifer Lopez, Michael Vartan, Wanda Sykes.Īfter a 15-year absence from the big screen Fonda returned to acting in this romantic comedy vehicle starring Jennifer Lopez.
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