The ledge scene in the film is not in the book. It seems like a clear reference to the ledge jump scene that Redford and Newman had in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Seems to clearly be Redford's tribute to his friend Paul Newman.
I remember wondering, during that scene, if perhaps the scene had been conceived back when Paul Newman was connected with the project, and left in as an homage.
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What in the wide, wide world of sports is a-goin' on here?
A fitting tribute it was. They were a great team. Happy that this movie is doing decently at the box office. Movies that delve into the "mid life crisis" or "late life crisis" of people's lives get very little attention.
Hopefully the industry will see that there is a market & demographic for these kind of films
Is it doing well? I saw it made about $2 million its opening week. It reminded me a lot of another movie, The Big Year (Steve Martin birdwatching), which I loved, and which was better. I remember that The Big Year did poorly and played for such a short time that I ended up watching it on an airplane (where I noticed many of my seatmates were also watching the same movie -- on the type of plane where you got to choose -- implying they'd all missed it in the theater). I just looked it up and The Big Year made over $3 million its opening weekend.
I wonder if, perhaps, movies like this really can't support a superstar cast.
A late life crisis movie that did better was About Schmidt, but I found it sort of unfunny and miserable. I'm in my 40s. My mom liked it, though.
I noticed that to, clearly a tribute to that scene with Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid..
Newman was intended for Nick Nolte's role - according to the trivia
shareI was waiting for them to hold a belt and jump. "The fall will probably kill you."
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