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The Way We Were
Drama, Romance
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value emotionally restrained period romance shaped by ideological conflict, social difference, and the ache of what might have been.
- Tone
- melancholic, romantic, bittersweet
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- romantic incompatibility, political conviction, class difference, memory, compromise
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century America, college campuses and politically charged urban society
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