Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
The story
For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years.
- daughter
- lake
- parent child relationship
- son
- based on play or musical
- family relationships
- family holiday
- new england
- family conflict
- lake house
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Katharine Hepburn
Ethel Thayer
Henry Fonda
Norman Thayer Jr.
Jane Fonda
Chelsea Thayer Wayne
Doug McKeon
Billy Ray
- Dabney Coleman — Bill Ray
- William Lanteau — Charlie Martin
- Christopher Rydell — Sumner Todd
- Troy Garity — Young Boy on Jetty (uncredited)
- Directed
- Mark Rydell
- Written
- Ernest Thompson
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 519 ratings
- Studio
- IPC Films, ITC Entertainment
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
