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The Prince of Tides

1991

Barbra Streisand

Nick Nolte, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner, Kate Nelligan ...

6.6

27,050

Drama. Romance Tom Wingo (Nick Nolte) is a disillusioned Southern coach who must reveal his tortured childhood in order to help his suicidal sister. Streisand is Susan Lowenstein, the determined psychiatrist who battles Toms resentment and rage in search of the truth. Their antagonism gradually gives way to love, as Tom and Susan find the secret that unlocks his sisters torment and the courage to change their own lives... A famous adaptation of Pat Conroys best-selling novel. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"An assured and very serious love story that allows neither humor nor romance to get in the way of its deeper and darker subject (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Nothing about Barbra Streisand's previous acting or direction is preparation for her expert handling of 'The Prince of Tides'"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Even the stalwart Nolte drowns in the laughable idiocy of the Wingo-Lowenstein love affair, which lifts Tides to the fiasco class"	POS
United Kingdom	Barry McIlheney Empire	"The Prince Of Tides is a rare slice of romantic moviemaking for all those grown-ups feeling ignored since Kramer Vs. Kramer last rattled their value systems (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"This film is either reconfirmation of Streisand’s considerable talent or further evidence that she has an ego as big as all outdoors. More often than not, it appears to be doing both at the same time."	NEU
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"A deeply moving exploration of the tangled emotions of a dysfunctional Southern family (...) Streisand marks every frame with the intensity and care of a filmmaker committed (...) with her characters."	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"[It] plays like a glossy, Hollywood version of a therapist-patient relationship interspersed with Freudian footnotes (...) Streisand isn’t content with exploring human pain. She had to make it glamorous, too"	NEU
United States	Jay Carr Boston Globe	"A big, bold, slightly old-fashioned film carried by its heartfelt conviction, by Barbra Streisand's painstaking direction and self-effacing acting, and by Nick Nolte."	POS

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