What are Jane Fonda's best performances?

Klute is my favorite. Julia was on Amazon Prime for months but they just took it down. TCM shows it once or twice a year. If you can, try and watch Jane Fonda in Five Acts on HBO. It's a really raw, honest look at her life.

Klute is my favorite

Jane Fonda's Favorite Fat Burners for me, but Jane Fonda's Prime Time: Trim, Tone & Flex is a close second.

Umm. OP? KLUTE is the one to see.

And my personal favorite- and possibly almost tied with Klute---

The Morning After-

I love this flawed film and I love her.

I love the opening with the superlative cinematography and the titles that come up- It's SO California circa 1986.

I despised Grace and Frankie- so you have good taste-

And 3rd? Coming Home

Another one that I had never seen for my entire life because I thought that it looked horrid (I am 45) I just caught it-

California Suite- I thought that she was as good as the chick who won the Oscar and quite honestly, I think Jane deserved a nomination-

She was really good in it! Cannot stand Alan Alda and she eats him alive.

Klute, Barbarella, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and The Morning After. Julia and Coming Home are vastly overrated films.

R4. Imagine Robert Redford playing Alda's role in California Suite? Alda is no match for Jane.

R6- NICE!!!! That is a perfect choice- It would be like night and day. I really was impressed with her in that film.

Alda is laughable and he still cannot kill the scenes- Jane carries the entire thing, and because of her I enjoyed her scenes as much as anything with Michael Caine and the Oscar Winner (who for some reason I cannot fucking remember) DAME SOMETHING! Fuck.

Michael Caine was awesome, by the way.

Klute is the penultimate. Also:

Barefoot in the Park

China Syndrome

Cat Ballou

Electric Hoseman

All of these are enjoyable Fonda movies, especially Cat Ballou. I have to give On Golden Pond an honorable mention.

Some may wince at the choice of Barbarella . But she's very funny and charming. A terrific screen presence, and possibly at her most beautiful.

As for her serious roles.....yeah, Klute is a no-brainer, as is Horses. The Morning After is also a terrific choice because it's the first just Plain Jane movie star performance she had given in years in a movie, without that movie having to be a political statement of some kind. It's an old-time lesson in how a movie star can catapult what would have otherwise been an ordinary, mediocre, forgettable film.

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I always enjoyed her in Monster in Law

I love Jane Fonda. Klute is such a fantastic film. The therapy sessions are so raw and real.

Her apartment in Klute is directly behind The Actor’s Studio. No one ever mentions that.

You can stream Julia on the hoopla service if your library is a member.

R11. There's a lot of improvisation in those therapist scenes. Jane talked about it in an interview or book. Can't remember. Same thing with the therapist scenes in An Unmarried Woman. Mazursky cast a real therapist opposite Jill Clayburgh.

You mean Klute with Donald Sutherland? That Klute?

It isn’t a fantastic movie but The Electric horseman is a really enjoyable was to spend a Saturday or Sunday afternoon!

Was she in that one with Katherine Hepburn

Klute, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, The China Syndrome, and Julia.

Julia may be overrated but Fonda and Redgrave are wonderful.

Klute is one of my all-time favorite movies.

#r17 Do you mean On Golden Pond? Yes.

R19 no, the one about the murder in Italy

R1 as you noted that oddly enough, after years of streaming absence, Julia showed up on Prime around March/April of this year. But it has since been removed. I think the rights to it may be complicated, plus it doesn't help that it's a 20th Century Fox movie, and Disney has been basically keeping those movies locked up ever since they bought Fox. You can find used DVD copies on eBay, and there's a rare Blu-ray from Twilight that you can usually get for about $50-$60.

She's brilliant in Klute. It's one of the all time great Oscar Best Actress wins.

R21 There could be a reason Julia has become harder to find. It has lost a lot of credibility over the years. Check out this article from 2023

As Mrs. Ted Turner

I think Jane Fonda's Workout 12 was absolutely stellar!

R4 just referred to DAME Maggie Smith as a chick.

I am undone.

[quote]Same thing with the therapist scenes in An Unmarried Woman. Mazursky cast a real therapist opposite Jill Clayburgh.

Speaking of who [italic]should[/italic] have won in '79...

R26 here. My mother-in-law asked what had me so stunned. How do I explain R4 to her?

R28-

I do not understand Broadway and all musicals too- I have only learned about Patti Lupone because of you all (and Youtube) I much prefer Betty Buckley based on videos)

I love horror films but do not even want to see Sinners because I heard that it has musical performances.

I almost called the British chick "the bug eyed British chick".

Klute is my favorite and for a silly, entertaining watch, Barbarella.

Where does Agnes of God rate? Or does it? I haven’t seen it since the 80s but remember enjoying it well enough

R23, and there is that too. It's a beautifully crafted film (costumes, production design, music, etc), but the backstory does tarnish it.

Pretending she was thin from aerobics when she practiced ballet for decades and was also bulimic.

She is excellent in Klute, They Shoot Horses Don't They?, The China Syndrome, and The Morning After.

Coming Home is a serviceable film but really nothing more.

The Morning After is darkly hurmous and really fun. And it includes that great line about Vera Miles which suggests that a future DL poster wrote that film.

R31 Meg Tilly and Anne Bancroft have the more interesting roles in the film.

R6, Redford would get emotional over the ice machine before Fonda. He’s a dud with women.

I always liked Alan Alda

Remember when she played Nancy Reagan?

I also liked her character’s transformation from news “Girl Friday” to breaking-news reporting warrior in “The China Syndrome,” not to mention as the doc in “Agnes Of God.”

I enjoyed Grace & Frankie. It's wonderful they developed the series.

The Morning After has that godawful music score and Sidney Lumet's usual lack of subtlety. The climax is bad. But Jane said she tried being drunk when she had to play drunk so it was an acting exercise.

R#19 Ha, Ha… I thought that person might have thought that Katharine Houghton was Jane Fonda in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” They both wore that reddish strawberry blonde fall in the sixties. ….. But that Italian murder movie sounds like a keeper!

I love Klute. I was transfixed how her hair could be sexy and fashionable and then suddenly very ugly. I still think They shoot horses, don’t they? is my favorite of her movies.

I am fonda Barefoot in the Park because she is so adorable in it. She gets some funny Neil Simon lines and makes the perfect partner for Redford.

I really enjoyed her small recurring role as Leona Lansing in the series The Newsroom and the way she played it.

"You will resign when I fire you out of petty malice, and not before!"

R41- I actually love the score for The Morning After (I know critics hated the score too) I especially like the score (as I mentioned above) for that great opening- the sun drenched warehouse district, the font of the titles, the shot of Jane walking down lit by the harsh sun.. I don't know. It's a vibe.

I find the ending quite moving- and let's face it, Jeff Daniels elevates any film by his sheer presence- and he was very good in this.

Jane's apartment was spot on too- None of this shit were a character who is down on their luck and living in a 10k apartment in NYC or even a 4k apt in Brooklyn when they are supposedly struggling-

I really like this film yet completely get the criticism. I probably put this in my Top 40 films.

8:50- sublime.

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I've never liked Jane Fonda's acting, not in Klute, not in Julia, not in The Shoot Horses..., not in Agnes of God, not in The China Syndrome, definitely not in On Golden Pond, The Morning After, and comedic roles. Her acting is a coin with two faces, neither of which is done well but always the same.

I don't hate her, i don't hate her politics, I just don't find her at all a good actor.

R48- M'aam! This is a Wendy's!

R48 = Hepburn

I like The China Syndrome. But I can get her Kimberly Wells confused with Tootsie's Emily Kimberly.

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