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Sometimes a Great Notion
Directed by
Paul Newman
PG
1971
1h 54m
Action
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Adventure
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6.9
100%
77%
6.9
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A family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggles to keep their family business alive amid changing times.
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Cast of Sometimes a Great Notion
Paul Newman
Hank Stamper / Director / Co-Executive Producer
Henry Fonda
Henry Stamper
Lee Remick
Viv Stamper
Michael Sarrazin
Leland 'Lee' Stamper
Richard Jaeckel
Joe Ben Stamper
Linda Lawson
Jan Stamper
Cliff Potts
Andy Stamper
Sam Gilman
John
Lee de Broux
Willard Eggleston
Jim Burk
Biggy Newton
Roy Jenson
Howie Elwood
Joe Maross
Floyd Evenwrite
Roy Poole
Jonathan Draeger
Charles Tyner
Les Gibbons
Bennie E. Dobbins
Alan Gibbs
Mickey Gilbert
Dick Hudkins
Terry Leonard
Fred Lerner
Sometimes a Great Notion Ratings & Reviews
The New Beverly
Quentin Tarantino
Sometimes a Great Notion is a good somewhat compromised movie, that is justly famous for one of the greatest scenes in early seventies cinema.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
A New Hollywood movie suffused in Old Hollywood values.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Based on Ken Kesey's book, Newman's second film as helmer is not effective or cohesive as the first (Rachel Rachel), but Oregon locations and good acting by Henry Fonda and others compensate for uneasy fit between melodrama and action
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
When the film cuts away from the family soap opera dramatics and shows the macho men at work wielding their chainsaws at the logging camp among the giant trees, it has a buzz.
TV Guide
Kesey's 600-plus-page novel would have made a fine six-hour mini-series, and it's a tribute to scenarist Gay that he managed to condense that much material into under two hours.
Variety
Variety Staff
The result is rather good -- a sort of contemporary 'western' in the timber territory.
Atlantic City Weekly
Lori Hoffman
Terrific family drama
New York Times
Vincent Canby
Surprisingly effective.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Newman starts tunneling under the material, coming up with all sorts of things we didn't quite expect, and along the way he proves himself as a director of sympathy and a sort of lyrical restraint.
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