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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 9353
Released: November 6, 2001 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Tom Wingo is a disillusioned southern football coach who leaves his crumbling marriage to travel to New York and reveal his tortured childhood to help his psychologically troubled twin sister.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 6-DEC-2005
Media Type: DVD
Description of The Prince of Tides:
Barbra Streisand's best film as a director is helped enormously by one of Nick Nolte's finest performances. Nolte plays a football coach who is estranged from his wife (Blythe Danner) and who enters into an affair with the psychiatrist (Streisand) of his suicidal sister (Melinda Dillon). Streisand is acceptable in her star turn, but behind the camera she paces the story very well and provides lots of room for Nolte to inhabit his burdened but likable character. George Carlin is a bit token as a gay New Yorker, although Jason Gould (Streisand's son) is good as a struggling teen in desperate need of a father figure. The whole film is worth watching just to see a great moment near the end where Nolte stands on a street, a bit slump-shouldered and wearing a look of sad resolve. It's great acting at its most minimal. --Tom Keogh
The Prince of Tides Reviews:
Honest movie ! 
2009-12-03 - your childhood will follow you into adulthood.dysfunctional childhood breeds dysfunctional adult.settle childhood issues trauma before inviting a spouse or children into your world
Great Movie
2009-11-02 - Babs and Nick Nolte are great in this movie! I ran across "The Prince of Tides" on television one day and knew immediately that I had to get this movie. I even read the book that its based on by Pat Conroy. A family, haunted by the ghosts of a painful secret, is in danger of losing everything. Their road to redemption lies in the telling of events hidden long ago. To get the full effect of this movie, read the book! Great experience, a movie you won't regret buying!
"A Movie That I Watch Time And Time Again"
2009-06-19 - "The Prince of Tides" was based on the Pat Conroy novel of the same name from 1986. Directed superbly by Barbra Streisand, the film aslo stars Barbra as a psychiatrist who helps a man come to terms with his tormented past. It is through Susan, the Streisand character, that Tom (played by Nick Nolte) faces his abusive childhood from both his mother and father. He also comes face to face with a secret that has been haunting him his whole life. The movie explores the emotional issues we all face with in life when we don't put our past behind us and when those problems are not dealt with in a professional setting. "The Prince of Tides" is one of the best films I have ever witnessed. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, "The Prince of Tides" lost in every category in 1991 as that was the year "The Silence of The Lambs" swept the Oscars. Barbra was also ignored by the Academy for Best Director, an omission I have never forgiven the Oscars for. How could a film win seven Oscar nods and overlook its director? Nevertheless, "The Prince of Tides" is a superb film you will enjoy over and over. The DVD is barebones and doesn't come with any extras.
Good Movie 
2009-06-11 - I saw this movie years ago and really enjoyed it. Then a couple of weeks ago I read the book and couldn't believe all the stories that were packed into that book so I wanted to see the movie again. There is no possible way to squeeze all of that book into a movie. It would have to be a mini-series. All in all though the movie was as good as it could have been I think. Definitely worth watching.
Great book, horrible movie. 
2009-05-29 - This movie has very little in common with the book. The love story between Tom and Lowenstein was only a very small part of a really outstanding book - Luke was hardly mentioned at all and the Callenwolde incident(s) were glossed over.
Why oh why did Pat Conroy ever allow this movie to be made??? I would give it a negative rating if I could...
