Touches You

Powerful

People are voting emotionally.

Blistering performances.

I first saw this movie on Netflix and watched it non-stop until they took it off. Then I bought this movie and put it on my Macbook. I have no clue how many times I have watched it. I know it is over 50 times. You can ask me any question about any scene and I can tell you every word spoken and answer any question about any scene. If I play the movie and walk away , I don't even need to see what scene is playing. I can see it in my head very vividly and i know exactly what that scene looks like. I say I love this movie is a gross understatement. But if you ask my why I love it this much, I do not know how to answer. I often wonder why I love this movie as much as I do. There is something inside of me that this movie triggers beyond belief. I wish I knew what it was.

Excellent performances by Wood and Redford (as well as the others), great feel of the poor southern town, compelling human emotions. Cinematography was outstanding. Some of the camera work seemed to preview Butch Cassidy, one of my all-time classics. Wood's free-spirited and naive nature was compelling, and Redford, understated as always, was a fantastic counterpoint for her. Mary Badham, following on her role as Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird, brought her role to life and was very sympathetic as well. It is interesting that at 13, this was her penultimate role for almost 40 years. I wonder what happened? I generally rate movies on how they make me feel, and this one connected me to the characters, the time and place, and made me feel empathy and admiration, respect, and/or concern for them. Well done, Sydney Pollack.My scale: 1-5 decreasing degrees of "terrible", with 5 being "mediocre"6- OK. Generally held my interest OR had reasonable cast and/or cinematography, might watch it again 7 - Good. My default rating for a movie I liked enough to watch again, but didn't rise to the upper echelons 8- Very Good. Would watch again and recommend to others 9- Outstanding. Would watch over and over; top 10% of my ratings10 - A Classic (6 of 430 movies have received this)

Four years after her triumph in "To Kill A Mockingbird," Mary Badham shows us that precocious Scout charm once again as the sister of Natalie Wood when she tells the tragic story of her sister Natalie Wood. In depression era Mississippi apparent drifter Robert Redford enters the town. He turns out to be anything but a drifter. He is there to serve layoff notices to the railroad workers who live at the boarding house of Natalie's mother, a wonderful Kate Reid, a mother so despicable that she is willing to pair her daughter up with an older married man so as to get out of town.The film constantly refers to papa and by midsection we learn that he walked out on them some time back.Redford falls for the Wood character, Alva. She is the dreamer and he faces reality. Through misunderstanding and a misguided marriage by Alva to a Charles Bronson character, tragedy ensues.

this movie is so difficult to comment on. in many ways it is deeply flawed. the music is simply awful, absolutely wrong, the performances at times feel staged, and the direction too loose. and yet despite this - this is a wonderful film.i think it is simply the quality of natalie wood, not her performance which again is actually quite week. sometimes she seems to lose concentration and flits in and out of character - but this is a challenging role and one that i cannot believe another actress could play better. wow she takes your breath away - filling you with such strange sensations of warmth, pity and anger. i cant think of a performance that has moved me so much.she of course lived pretty much a tennessee Williams' story in her own right - except williams would have eschewed the melodrama and the intrigue of her death. and i think that is why she is so compelling in this, because she is simply revealing herself - and what we see is beautiful.