

The Way We Were
Everything seemed so important then... even love!
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5M
- Box office
- $50M
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- politics
- melancholy
- anti-communism
- mccarthyism
- 1940s
- 1950s
- romantic
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York City, New York16 Oct 1973
- Theatrical (limited)PGNew York City, New York17 Oct 1973
- Theatrical19 Oct 1973
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical (limited)London7 Feb 1974
- Theatrical(Rated A)15 Feb 1974
- PhysicalPG5 Feb 1986
- PhysicalPG14 Feb 1991
- PhysicalPG20 Dec 1999
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical21 Feb 1974
CanadaCA
- Theatrical17 Oct 1973
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical10 Jan 1974
BrazilBR
- Theatrical8 Nov 1973
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical22 Mar 1974
FinlandFI
- Theatrical19 Apr 1974
- TheatricalRe-release25 Jul 1986
FranceFR
- TheatricalU14 Dec 1973
- TheatricalRe-release, restored version18 Dec 2013
GermanyDE
- Theatrical12West Germany7 Mar 1974
- TheatricalEast Germany24 Oct 1975
GreeceGR
- Theatrical1310 Oct 1974
- PhysicalDVD17 Jul 2000
Hong KongHK
- Theatrical29 Aug 1974
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The Way We Were was released on 17 October 1973.
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Wuchak
8/14/2019
***A radical Left-winger falls in love with a more conservative WASP on the verge of WW2 and post-war*** A disparate couple meets in college in 1937, New York, and then reignite after the war. Katie (Barbra Streisand) is an uber-Liberal while Hubbell (Robert Redford) is more levelheaded about politics. He becomes a writer in Hollywood during the blacklist investigations of the late 40s wherein Katie’s activism th…
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