Eldergays, can you explain The Prince of Tides to me?

That’s the Prince of Tide, stugots

I take it that you haven't seen "The Mirror Has Two Faces,' OP?

Barbra- shopping for a man on TV and movies as usual- used the film as a casting couch. Unfortunately for her, Nolte (and others) were uninterested.

She turned the film into a soft-focus vehicle to showcase her deluded belief that she is a hot mama. Expanding the tole of the Psychiatrist til she was a co-star, then changing the plot so that the male character couldn't resist her sexiness.

I remember lol in the theater at the ending.

The worst movie of Streisand's career. Laughingly bad. The acting is some of the worst I've ever seen. "Showgirls" bad. Especially by non-talent Kate Nelligan, who sported hilariously bad wigs and makeup, and who was NOMINATED for this shit. But Jennifer Lawrence has an Oscar, so...

"Showgirls" is better. Because it at least it manages to entertain. I wish "The Prince Of Tides" had never been made. It's that bad.

It's long, it's boring, but Barbra's nails were like buttah.

Like 10 sticks of buttah.

Like 10 sticks of buttah lashed together in a roughhewn manner.

I thought Kate Nelligan was superb.

I was verkempt!

Isn’t Barbra’s character committing some ethical violations in this movie? Shouldn’t she have had her license revoked?

I'm not sure anyone can explain The Prince of Tides.

At the end of every day I drive through the city of Charleston and I cross the bridge that will take me home. I feel the words building inside me, I can't stop them, or tell you why I say them, but as I reach the top of the bridge these words come to me in a whisper. I say these words as a prayer, as regret, as praise, I say: Lowenstein... Lowenstein...

The book is very good, extremely moving and well written by Pat Conroy. The movie is all about her Nails.

Like [italic]The Color Purple[/italic], the book was way better than the movie. Both directors made too many compromises with both films. The screenplays for both films were mere shadows of the novels on which they were based. Spielberg pandered to the mainstream audiences, eliminating a lot of the racial and sexual elements that made the novel so engrossing to read. Streisand's ego expanded her part, reduced Tom Wingo's sister's role and completely eliminated the older brother, who was so important in Pat Conroy's novel. I liked Nolte in TPOT; Kate Nelligan was the terrible one.

I'll tell Nick Nolte, 'Stand there!'

Tight on my legs, nails, and hair!

Agree with R15 in the book being WAY better than the film.

In fact, the film is a maudlin piece of shit. And without the character of the brother, it makes little sense.

In contrast, I think the novel is wonderful. But then I'm a huge fan of Pat Conroy (The Lords of Discipline, The Great Santini, The Water Is Wide).

I don't remember it getting particularly good reviews, aside from Nick Nolte's performance.

It’s a very embarrassing film. She sleeps with her patients brother, who she had been counseling. She is also very ugly and it’s full of weird closeups of her.

Or sister? I can’t remember

Pat Conroy's a hack. He had one theme: I LOVE my mother I HATE my mother I LOVE my mother I HATE my mother I LOVE my mother I HATE my mother I LOVE my mother I HATE my mother and Beach Music is the worst book I've ever read.

I physically cringed when Nolte's character breaks down and cries in Streisand's arms. No such moment happened in the book, and rather than being cathartic, it just showed how cheap and shallow the movie was in comparison.

I found a copy of it in one of those portable libraries everyone has in their front yards.

It's my dream to go play football in the park with a hot guy/father figure -- pathetic, at my age, but...they call it getting 'stuck' for a reason.

I thought the relationship between Babs' son and Nolte was sweet.

At the time, I thought it was hideous and wondered if her nails would be nominated for an Oscar. It was one of a series of movies in which she tried to convince her audience she was attractive.

Lol!

The book was sublime, one of my all time favorites.

Someone jumps off a pier, right?

As a gayling, I was obsessed with this movie. I was also sleeping with a married man at the time, so... Rewatching it recently didn’t do much for me. It has an absolutely gorgeous score, though.

As many have already said, the book is infinitely better than the film.

Another movie about sodomy rape. How many are there now?

And I remember people (mostly female) were dismayed that Babs wasn't Oscar nominated for Best Director! I'm shocked that it was a Best Picture nominee. Melinda Dillion who plays Nolte's suicidal sister is tossed aside for various subplots and character conflicts and flashbacks and a romance between Babs and her nails. Awful, unwieldy script made me fast forward on VHS.

The ending when he hears her name called to him is so cheeeeezy

The Prince of Tides is the Braveheart of Yentls.

Barbra has a big nose.

Oh good, I'm glad I'm not crazy. It's so fucking horrible. And the southern fried accents (especially the dreadful Blythe Danner) are painful.

She had other priorities while making that movie.

Is this the one where people said she screamed at Jason, "Act like a man!"?

No, that was Tuesday.

Remember when Babs played a high class prostitute? I mean when she opened the door whose dream fuck is that? Maybe if she answered backward and naked because she does have the best ass...

Lowenstein was simply the poor man's Bob Newhart. Now do you understand?

It got Jason Gould his SAG card.

It really is a self-indulgent, alternate reality shitfest. Barbra as a shrink and a sex-kitten. LMFAO.

R26 that’s how my shrink & I usually end our sessions. What’s so funny, is that not normal?

I didn't read the book, so no frame of reference. I thought the best parts were the flash back scenes with Wingo as a child. And yes, the scene where he breaks down in her office was Very cringeworthy.

Who's the fucking elderly ham they cast as the Wingo father? Jesus, all the actors to choose from and Streisand picks THAT guy??

Mama promised me it would be my star turn. What happened?

You couldn't act like a MAN!

"Nick Nolte is AWFUL"

I saw the movie again recently and couldn't get over what a scenery-chewing HAM Nolte was in it.

I don't mind the breakdown scene. I thought Nolte was good in that scene.

The problem with the movie when I watched it recently was that everyone acts like they're in a play or '70s sitcom. Everybody is shouting at each other or talking at a high pitch. They're all playing to the back row.

Nick Nolte was excellent, OP.

Streisand's outfits when she's seeing the suicidal sister in the hospital are just ludicrous.

My brother in law trains psychologists. I can remember him discussing how they had to have a woman teacher tell a trainee that she was dressing too provocatively for the job. You are dealing with troubled people. You don't need to make them feel worse by coming in all glammed up.

And what annoys me about the film also is the comic "sounds of New York" you hear in street scenes. Always someone yelling or honking horns. Arguing constantly.

Glamour is the best medicine.

George Carlin’s one note turn as a Homo-Sexual was as bad as Greg Kinnear’s.

Kids being raped made it a great film.

I love the scene where NOLTE throws a football at BABS and she catches it (barely) with her talons. THAT SCENE IS LIKE BUTTAH

"Eldergays, can you explain The Prince of Tides to me?"

Here he is. No explanation needed.

Nolte was gorgeous and he never looked that hot again.

I thought the film was well directed.

But Barbra should never have cast herself. She was wrong for the part and her narcissism made the role too big.

I did laugh at the "love montage" that looked like an ad for Ralph Lauren Interiors.

As others have said, the book was much better. Although it wastes too much time on the other brother. That part bored the shit out of me.

She shouldn't have cast herself, R58. But it was the only way to get financing for the film, and even with her it wasn't easy.

"The worst movie of Streisand's career. Laughingly bad."

Um, are you familiar with Funny Lady? For Pete's Sake? The Main Event? A Star is Born?

One rainy afternoon in 1991, I theatre hopped and saw "The Prince of Tides", "Bugsy" and "JFK" for the price of one admission.

People really thought Nick Nolte was going to win the Oscar for this. But as Oscar night approached, I think it became less likely.

I was mad that Streisand's nose did not receive any notice in the cast listing.

Was that Jason Gould's only mainstream film?

I was a teen when I saw it but I loved it, thought Barbara was beautiful and was mesmerized by her nails.

R16 it didn't deserve the 7 nominations and probably would have been better if it had directed itself

It stinks! It's an onion peel movie. Keep peeling the layers till you get to the truth.

I watched it for the first time a few months ago and I was stunned by the "raped by escaped convicts" plot. You have this incredibly sentimental, hallmark channel movie and BAM an entire family is getting raped by escaped convicts. It was so over-the-top brutal it felt like it was in the wrong movie.

R23, I love your comment!

We need more entertainers like Billy Crystal in his prime.

Impartial critics.

I still haven't recovered from seeing Leslie Nielson in bikini briefs in Nuts. And I don't think I ever will. She was really stacking the deck against him.