“Everything seemed so important then... even love!”
Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.
Barbra Streisand
Katie Morosky
Robert Redford
Hubbell Gardner
Bradford Dillman
J.J.
Lois Chiles
Carol Ann
Patrick O'Neal
George Bissinger
Viveca Lindfors
Paula Reisner
Allyn Ann McLerie
Rhea Edwards
Murray Hamilton
Brooks Carpenter
Herb Edelman
Bill Verso
Diana Ewing
Vicki Bissinger
The Way We Were is a drama, romance film released in 1973 exploring themes of based on novel or book, politics, melancholy, anti-communism, mccarthyism, 1940s. Directed by Sydney Pollack, it stars Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman. Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.
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