Movies

December, 1973

Faithfully adapted by playwright-scenarist Arthur Laurents (author of West Side Story and Gypsy) from his own best-selling novel, The Way We Were is a cinch to score as the biggest, glossiest romantic blockbuster of the waning movie year. Under director Sydney (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?) Pollack, Laurents' comedy-drama also turns out to be smoothly intelligent and irresistible, mined with resonant topical references to showbiz, social commitment, Hollywood black-listing and political morali...