When you find yourself wanting to spend less time with the central couple, and don’t have that much to say about the on-screen depiction of their marriage, it’s a clear sign that this film didn’t work as a romance...

| Feb 3, 2023

You can still feel the stage origins of this material and the director, Gene Saks, leaves pauses for laughs that don’t come. But, at least, it’s livelier than Fonda’s 1966 picture Any Wednesday.

| Jul 6, 2022

Barefoot in the Park has much to recommend it, especially the revealingly human scenes that demonstrate only too well how simple it is for a tender moment to disintegrate into tension.

| Jul 1, 2022

Gene Saks, an excellent comedy director, is skilled and imaginative, and his players are responsive to his suggestions for getting the most from humorous lines and situations.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 2, 2022

Just about everything Barefoot in the Park is right, though, and it all works together to provide a wonderful evening, refredshingly free the leering, double-entendre brand of sex farce but refreshingly witty in its humor.

| May 2, 2022

Definitely one of the best movies of the summer, Barefoot squeezes delightful footage out of the connubial conflicts of pixie bride Jane Fonda and her comparatively sober lawyer-husband Robert Redford.

| May 2, 2022

Mr. Simon, taking advantage of the more flexible medium, has bolstered them with a lot of new material; and this, added to the engaging performances of the excellent cast, have so strengthened the impact of the whole.

| May 2, 2022

Barefoot in the Park, a comic delight on the stage, is at least three times funnier on the screen, and has to rank with How to Succeed as the best movie comedy of the year.

| May 2, 2022

Rather a glim premise -- and an overworked one -- but playwright Neil Simon has festooned the thin line with a veritable daisy chain of rollicking situations and gag lines that make a frolicsome matter of it.

| May 2, 2022

Intelligently "opened out" to include incidents only mentioned in the stage version, this delightful comedy has all the lightness of a feathered and brings to the theater audience the same comfortable feeling that all is well with the world.

| May 2, 2022

Not that the film version of this Neil Simon comedy hit... doesn't have its moments. But the illusion created in the theatrical production which was so essential to the play's effectiveness has been lost on screen.

| May 2, 2022

The simple Simon formula touches the funnybone by focusing on familiar fare, the kind of experiences that most people in the audience may have experienced in their own lives.

| May 2, 2022

A certain kind of comedy, like a fine soufflé, defies logic , and gravity and rides fragilely on a cushion of airy inconsequence. Accept Neil Simon's recipe for a soufflé comedy... and [Barefoot in the Park] works out very nicely indeed.

| May 2, 2022

It is as hilarious and pleasantly zany a farce as it was in the howling stage success by Neil Simon, who also did the script for the film.

| May 2, 2022

he movie has dandy performances by Jane Fonda and Robert Redford as the newlyweds, Mildred Natwick as the mother, Charles Boyer as the neighbor and Herbert Edelman as a phone installer who keepshaving to climb all those stairs.

| May 2, 2022

Barefoot in The Park is still the nearest thing to good screwball comedy we have had for years.

| May 2, 2022

It's not without its absurdities and its faults, but most of the credit for its success must go to the actors.

| May 2, 2022

A delightful film. in which the principals get splendid support from Mildred Natwick and Charles Boyer.

| May 2, 2022

The plot is alight to the point of invisibility; but exotic food, young love, and congested living somehow provide enough laughs to fill but a pleasant entertainment.

| May 2, 2022

In adapting his hugely successful play for the screen, Simon has taken the precaution of altering it very little with the result that his lines, some of thorn quite amusing, are now shadow-boxing with an invisible curtain and proscenium arch.

| May 2, 2022