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A Netflix Original production, Ritesh Batra’s third film is an adaptation of Kent Haruf’s final novel, Our Souls At Night, set in the fictional prairie town of Holt, Colorado.

One evening, Addie Moore (Jane Fonda) pays a visit to her neighbour Louis Waters (Robert Redford), in order to make him a proposition of sorts. Addie wonders if Louis would be interested in coming over to her house and sleeping with her. What Addie is proposing is not sex – long widowed, she’s looking for companionship, the comfort of someone to talk to and sleep next to, and she wonders if Louis might feel the same way.

The two try out this experiment of sorts, much to the amusement and consternation of those around them. The awkwardness of the arrangement is palpable, but as Addie and Louis talk and learn more about each other, an obvious warmth grows between them.

Our Souls At Night

Starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda

Directed by Ritesh Batra

It starts quietly, and ends without drama, melo- or otherwise. After The Lunchbox and its tad disappointing followup The Sense Of An Ending, you know how it is with Ritesh Batra. This is a filmmaker who loves silence and embraces it with all its inbuilt hazards and uncertainties.

We’ve seen him work wonders with wordless emotions in his earlier works. So no surprise if here he once again weaves a luminous lucidity into the looming stillness of a landscape that won’t judge mankind. Kindly or otherwise.

With Our Souls At Night, a deeply stirring gentle humane drama about two autumnal souls drifting together in ways that The Bridges Of Madison County could never fathom, Batra joins the ranks of the greatest living filmmakers. And we are not speaking of India alone. Batra is a...

Robert Redford and Jane Fonda‘s incredible relationship, on and off screen, is the subject of a new tribute video from Netflix.

The clip, obtained exclusively by People, is a touching trip down memory lane for the duo, who are reuniting 50 years after playing newlyweds in the 1967 classic Barefoot in the Park for their new Netflix film, Our Souls at Night.

“Bob Redford and I started working together in our 20s,” Fonda says, as footage of their classic films play in the background. “And we’ve had a film relationship and a friendship that has gone almost 50 years,” Redford adds.

“Our Souls at Night” opened on Sept. 29 to a rousing reception, with critics praising this fourth film pairing of Jane Fonda and Robert Redford. In Ritesh Batra‘s skillful adaptation of Kent Haruf‘s 2015 bestselling romance, they play neighbors who are both widowed and alone until Fonda’s character suggests they turn to each other for […]...

Love stories are common in Hollywood, with tales of first loves even more ubiquitous.

The new film Our Souls at Night, starring Jane Fonda and Robert Redford, is a romance between two characters who have both lost their first loves and are getting a second chance later in life. "It was a movie about two old people that have an extraordinary relationship, and that doesn't come along that often," Fonda told The Hollywood Reporter at the film's New York premiere at The Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday night.

In the adaptation of the Kent Haruf novel of the same...

Told with with the gentle touch of a partner taking your arm on an afternoon stroll, Ritesh Batra’s “Our Souls at Night” is a wise and wistful drama about life after death; regardless of how old you are, this is the kind of movie that your parents would like. It begins with the folksy twang of a guitar and shots of streetlights blinking awake as night falls on a small Colorado town. A widower named Louis Waters (Robert Redford) sits alone in the kitchen of a house that was clearly meant for two. This is the only sort of night that he has. At least, until it isn’t. There’s someone at the door — his neighbor, Addie Moore (Jane Fonda), also on her own — and she wants to know if Louis might be interested in sleeping with her. Literally sleeping with her. It’s not about sex, it...

Robert Redford and Jane Fonda find love next door in the new trailer for Netflix’s “Our Souls At Night”. Based on the novel by Kent Haruf, Fonda stars as Addie Moore, a widow, who seeks Louis Waters’ (Redford) affection. While they have been neighbours for years, Addie and Louis never had contact but fall in […]...

Jane Fonda and Robert Redford first teamed up on the big screen 50 years ago in in Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park,” and now Netflix has brought them back together for the tender and soulful drama “Our Souls at Night.” The movie marks their fourth movie together and it recently earned favorable reviews at its world premiere in Venice.

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Adapted from the novel of same name by Kent Haruf, “Our Souls at Night” begins with Fonda’s Addie Moore knocking on the door of Redford’s Louis Waters. Both of them have lost their significant other and Addie proposes the two begin spending their nights together in bed. Her offer doesn’t involve sex, just the hope for connection late in life. Louis agrees despite some reservations and the two spark a...

Netflix has released, via Vanity Fair, the first full trailer for the Jane Fonda and Robert Redford reunion “Our Souls at Night“. The film, directed by Ritesh Batra, is set to be released at the end of this month and premiered a couple of weeks back at the Venice Film Festival The film is based on the final novel by Kent Haruf and written by “The Spectacular Now” scribes Scott Neustadter and Michael H.

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Title: Our Souls At Night Director: Ritesh Batra Cast: Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Matthias Schoenaerts, Judy Greer, Bruce Dern, Iain Armitage, Fred Osborne and Rachel Hergert. As time rolls by and old age takes over, it might be tricky to fall asleep alone. This is what inspired the novel by Kent Haruf, ‘Our Souls At […]

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Kissing only gets better with age.

Jane Fonda reunited with her Barefoot in the Park costar Robert Redford and opened up about “old sex” during a press conference Friday at the Venice Film Festival, while promoting their latest film, Our Souls at Night.

“In Barefoot in the Park, I couldn’t keep my hands off of him,” Fonda, 79, said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “I was constantly forcing myself on him. In Our Souls at Night, the dynamic of my character to his character was somewhat similar. I just love the fact that these films bookend our careers.”

“We played...

Before Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling or Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio joined the ranks of all-time best movie couples, there was Jane Fonda and Robert Redford.

At the 74th Venice Film Festival, the frequent costars reunited 50 years after playing newlyweds in the 1967 classic Barefoot in the Park to premiere their new Netflix film Our Souls at Night.

Based on Kent Haruf’s novel and adapted by The Fault in Our Stars writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, the film stars Fonda, 79, and Redford, 81, as widowed neighbors Addie Moore and Louis Waters. After the two start sleeping in bed...

“Our Souls at Night” premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 1 to a rousing reception, with critics praising this fourth film pairing of Jane Fonda and Robert Redford. In this skillful adaptation of Kent Haruf‘s 2015 bestselling romance, they play neighbors who are both widowed and alone until Fonda’s character suggests they turn […]...

This adaptation of Kent Haruf’s novel is a graceful, easygoing, sincere film about a couple finding solace in each other and respite from their Edward Hopper lives

It’s raining in the morning ahead of the Our Souls at Night screening. The bedraggled delegates gather outside the theatre. There is a click of umbrellas, a squelch of wet shoes. These people are in dire need of some cinematic chicken soup, a spoonful of comfort food to soothe aching limbs and revive flagging spirits. They are soon to receive rather more than a spoonful. It’s about to come down in bucket-loads.

Adapted from the Kent Haruf novel, Our Souls at Night is your classic Hollywood weepie, so immaculately played that it confounds crass preconceptions. It arrived in Venice saddled with a premise that could hardly sound more cloying, together with an unfortunate title that has had hardened British hacks...

One day a widow knocks on the door of a widower she barely knows, though they have lived in the same small town in Colorado for what must be 70 years, and proposes they dispel their loneliness by sleeping together. Talk and companionship, not sex, is what she’s after. He takes a day to think it over. Then he accepts her proposal.

So begins, without further preamble, the romantic comedy Our Souls as Night, adapted from Kent Haruf’s quiet, deeply thoughtful final novel. It could have been made as a very different film for festival and art house audiences. Here...

It’s amazing to think it’s been fifty years since these two legends first graced the screen together, in Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park” (1967), directed by Gene Saks. Now, they’re revisiting that crackling chemistry for a literary adaptation about finding love in one’s autumnal years.

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Per the official synopsis: “Based on the best-selling novel written by Kent Haruf and adapted for the screen by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (“The Fault in Our Stars”), Our Souls at Night is set in Colorado and begins when Addie Moore (Jane Fonda) pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters (Robert Redford). Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they’d been neighbors for decades, but had little contact. Their children...

Duo will collect Golden Lions for lifetime achievement at premiere of Our Souls At Night.

Jane Fonda and Robert Redford will be awarded the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 74th Venice International Film Festival (30 August – 9 September).

They will collect the prizes before the world premiere of their new Netflix original film Our Souls At Night on 1 September in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema (Lido di Venezia).

The film is directed Ritesh Batra, stars Fonda and Redford and is produced by Redford’s company Wildwood Enterprises, Inc.

It’s based on the novel by Kent Haruf and is adapted for the screen by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (The Fault In Our Stars). It will launch globally on Netflix later this year.

Director of the Venice Film Festival, Alberto Barbera, said: “Few Hollywood legends have demonstrated such determination and courage over the course of their professional career as Jane Fonda. Her life has...

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Whether he’s reading to kids at the White House, hitting up local bookstores on Black Friday, or giving recommendations to his daughters, President Barack Obama may as well be known as the Commander in Books.

Potus is an avid reader and recently spoke to the New York Times about the significant, informative and inspirational role literature has played in his presidency, crediting books for allowing him to “slow down and get perspective.” With his presidency coming to an end this Friday, EW looked back at Obama’s lit picks over the years...

For the first time in 37 years, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda will share the screen. Reunited for the fourth time onscreen, Redford and Fonda will once again come together for Netflix's 2017 drama Our Souls at Night. 

Redford and Fonda, who first appeared together on film 50 years ago in 1966's Marlon Brando-led thriller The Chase, play widowed neighbors in Our Souls at Night, as shown in the first-look image released by Netflix below. In the movie based on Kent Haruf's 2015 novel of the same name, Addie Moore (Fonda) pays an unexpected visit to Louis Waters (Redford) and though...

As a big fan of the novels by Kent Haruf, I’m really wary of his work being adapted. Granted I can’t vouch for Hallmark‘s 2004 take on “Plainsong,” but generally speaking, the author’s work hinges on small moments, with heartbreak and drama unfolding in the everyday modulations of regular life. And bringing that to the big screen, or Netflix, where emotional beats are often decorated by performances and score selections and more, could bring the wrong tone to the source material.

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Netflix has released a first-look image of Robert Redford and Jane Fonda from its upcoming original film Our Souls at Night, an adaptation of the Kent Haruf novel. (See photo above). This is the first re-team for Redford and Fonda since their starring roles in 1979’s The Electric Horseman. They previously worked together in 1967’s Barefoot in the Park. Adapted for the screen by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (The Fault in Our Stars), Our Souls at Night is set in…...

Netflix has released a first-look image of Robert Redford and Jane Fonda from its upcoming original film Our Souls at Night, an adaptation of the Kent Haruf novel. (See photo above). This is the first re-team for Redford and Fonda since their starring roles in 1979’s The Electric Horseman. They previously worked together in 1967’s Barefoot in the Park. Adapted for the screen by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (The Fault in Our Stars), Our Souls at Night is set in…...

Over the years, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda have co-starred together in three films — Arthur Penn’s “The Chase,” about a prison break in a small Southern town, the 1967 film adaptation of Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park” and finally Sydney Pollack’s “The Electric Horseman.” Now, the two reunite in the film “Our Souls at Night,” based on Kent Haruf’s novel by the same name.

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Set in Colorado, the film follows widow Addie Moore (Fonda) who pays an unexpected visit to her neighbor, the widower Louis Waters (Redford). Despite being neighbors for years, the two have had little contact, but now that their children live far away and they’re all alone, both decide to establish a connection and make most of the time they have left. The film was adapted for the screen by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber...

Robert Redford and Jane Fonda are no strangers to one another’s company. It was nearly fifty years ago when they played newlyweds in Barefoot in the Park, after which they co-starred in The Chase and The Electric Horseman. Now, they’re set to star together once again in Netflix’s upcoming movie Our Souls at Night, which had its first still released over the weekend.

In their fourth outing together, Fonda and Redford play a pair of widowed neighbors who begin to sleep with one another … but not in the way you think. They literally sleep in the same bed, together. Get your mind out of the gutter. Though platonic, their relationship, nevertheless, becomes the talk of their small town. Bruce Dern, Judy Greer and Matthias Schoenaerts round out the cast.

While it’s odd to see such high-profile actors in a Netflix-exclusive, even post-House of Cards, it does make sense.

Ritesh Batra, director of the critically acclaimed and audience cheered The Lunchbox, has a brand new project lined up and you won’t believe the cast! Batra will be directing two iconic Hollywood stars in the Netflix film Our Souls At Night.

So who are these iconic Hollywood stars in the leading roles? Robert Redford and Jane Fonda! Yes, you read that right. This is the first time the two have shared screen space since The Electric Horseman in 1979. The pair also previously starred in 1967’s wonderful Barefoot in the Park.

About the project Batra told Ht, “After reading the book and the script, it was a no-brainer for me to want to work with two actors, who are legends and whose work I admire, and to tell a story that moves me. It’s a great opportunity.”

The film, based on Kent Haruf’s novel of the same name,...

It’s taken nearly 40 years, but Robert Redford and Jane Fonda are set to collaborate once again. The duo will appear together in Netflix’s “Our Souls at Night,” an adaptation of Kent Haruf’s novel of the same name that’s just found a director in Ritesh Batra. The pair previously appeared together in 1967’s “Barefoot in the Park” and 1979’s “The Electric Horseman.”

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Haruf’s novel, which Redford brought to Netflix last year, concerns a man and woman who reconnect after both of their spouses pass away; Deadline, who first reported the news, reports that the tone of the project will be along the lines of Clint Eastwood’s “The Bridges of Madison County.” Fonda also stars in Netflix’s “Grace and Frankie” alongside Lily Tomlin.

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Ritesh Batra ("The Lunchbox") has been set to direct Robert Redford and Jane Fonda in the film adaptation of Kent Haruf's novel "Our Souls At Night" which has been setup at Netflix.

Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber penned the script about a widow who pays an unexpected visit to a widower neighbor in Colorado. They've known each other for decades, were friends with their late spouses, and their children are gone leaving them alone. She seeks to establish a romantic connection and make the most of the rest of the time they have.

Finola Dwyer is also onboard as producer alongside Redford. Redford and Fonda starred together in 1967's "Barefoot in the Park" and 1979's "The Electric Horseman" and have long wanted to work together again.

Source: Deadline...

Exclusive: Netflix has set Ritesh Batra to direct Robert Redford and Jane Fonda in Our Souls At Night, an adaptation of the Kent Haruf novel. Batra is best known for directing The Lunchbox, the BAFTA nominated 2013 pic that won the Grand Golden Rail award at Cannes. He most recently completed the Charlotte Rampling-Jim Broadbent-starrer The Sense of An Ending. Redford is producing Our Souls at Night, and the script is by by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, the…...

Jeepers Creepers 3: A hungry flesh-eating creature will take flight again in Jeepers Creepers 3, a long-awaited sequel to a horror series that began in 2001. Victor Salva wrote and directed the first two installments, which found good-looking young people as vulnerable victims of the winged creature known as The Creeper. Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now) will serve as a producer on the project -- his company produced the original two films -- and production is expected to get underway early in 2016, with Salva returning as writer/director. [Variety]   Our Souls At Night: Robert Redford and Jane Fonda want to star together in Our Souls At Night, a screen adaptation of a novel by Kent Haruf. The story follows two people who have long lived in a small town; after both...

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Two of Hollywood's acting legends Robert Redford and Jane Fonda could be teaming up again on screen.

Redford and Fonda are said to be nearing a deal to star in Netflix's adaptation of Kent Haruf novel Our Souls At Night, which was released on May 26, reports Deadline.

Our Souls At Night tells the story of widowers Addie Moore and Louis Waters. One day, Addie pays an unexpected visit to her neighbour Louis.

The two aren't friends but are friendly towards each other in their small Colorado town. During this visit, Addie ask Louis if he would like to sleep with her from time to time and what starts off as an odd proposal turns into a friendship between the lonely widowers.

Redford, who owns the rights to the book, is slated to produce while (500) Days of Summer writing team Scott Neustadter and Michael H Weber are attached to adapt the novel into a screenplay.

Netflix is reportedly weighing up whether to back a romance that would reunite Robert Redford and Jane Fonda on screen for the first time since The Electric Horseman in 1979.

Our Souls At Night is based on a novel by Kent Haruf about a widow in Colorado who visits her widower neighbour in the hopes of starting a romance.

According to Deadline Hollywood Scott Neustadter and Michael H Weber, the screenwriting duo behind The Fault In Our Stars and (500) Days Of Summer, will adapt the screenplay. Redford, who stars opposite Cate Blanchett in Toronto selection Truth, will produce.

Netflix’s first original film, Beasts Of No Nation directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and starring Idris Elba, screens in Toronto.

Netflix did not comment.

Exclusive: Netflix is here at Toronto unveiling Beasts Of No Nation and chasing acquisition titles including the Michael Moore documentary Where To Invade Next (they deny any offer was made made). The streaming service is separately close to a deal that continues to press its program to make original theatrical quality films for its global streaming service. Netflix is in discussions to back an adaptation of the Kent Haruf novel Our Souls At Night that will be a starring…...

They famously worked together in the likes of Barefoot In The Park and The Electric Horseman, and have long wanted to share the screen again. So Jane Fonda and Robert Redford are planning to co-star in Our Souls At Night.According to Deadline, Netflix is in talks to back the movie, making it the latest in its series of acquisitions along the line of Beasts Of No Nation. Redford is producing the film, and The Fault In Our Stars duo Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber are on board to adapt Kent Haruf’s novel. The story, set in Colorado, follows Addie Moore (Fonda, if this all comes together), a widow living alone after her children have long moved away. She visits her neighbour, Louis Waters (Redford), similarly single and an old friend of Addie’s through decades of life. She wants to become more than friends, and seeks his...

Netflix is in discussions to develop an original film adaptation of Kent Haruf's novel "Our Souls At Night" which will serve as a starring vehicle for Robert Redford and Jane Fonda.

Said to be akin to "Bridges of Madison County" in tone, the Colorado-set novel follows a woman who pays an unexpected visit to her neighbor.

Both lost their respective partners years ago, have known each other for decades, and now each live alone in big houses. She seeks to establish a romantic connection with him and make the most of the rest of the time they have.

Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber ("500 Days Of Summer," "The Fault In Our Stars") are penning the script while Redford will produce. Redford and Fonda previously worked together in 1967's "Barefoot in the Park" and 1979's "The Electric Horseman"

Source: Deadline...

Writer Kent Haruf, who authored Plainsong and several other novels set in small-town Colorado, died Sunday at age 71, his publisher said. Haruf's editor at Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Gary Fisketjon, confirmed Haruf's death. Knopf spokesman Paul Bogaards said Haruf had been battling cancer. During a 1999 interview with The Associated Press, Haruf said that he was a preacher's son who grew up in a family of book lovers. He attended Nebraska Wesleyan University, spent two years in the Peace Corps in Turkey and returned to the United States to fine-tune his fiction at the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop. The Tie That Binds,...