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'''Barefoot in the Park''' is a 1967 American comedy film.
Based on Neil Simon's 1963 play of the same title, it focuses on newlyweds Corrie and Paul Bratter and their adventures living in a minuscule fifth-floor walk-up apartment in a Greenwich Village brownstone. Stuffed-shirt Paul is a hard-working young attorney just starting his practice, while spontaneous bride Corrie is determined to create a romantic environment in one room with no heat, a hole in the skylight, and oddball neighbors.
The title refers to Paul's becoming drunk, throwing caution to the wind and running barefoot in Washington Square Park in response to his wife's repeated complaints about his sober and cautious demeanor.
The film's screenplay was written by Simon. Gene Saks directed Robert Redford, reprising his Broadway role of Paul, and Jane Fonda, who replaced the play's Elizabeth Ashley. Mildred Natwick reprises her stage role as the bride's mother, Charles Boyer is featured as the eccentric upstairs neighbor, and Herb Edelman appears as a telephone installer.
Natwick was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Fonda was nominated for a BAFTA as Best Foreign Actress, and Simon received a nod from the Writers Guild of America.

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Plot

Corie and Paul Bratter, a recently married couple, move into a fifth floor apartment in Greenwich Village (one of the ongoing jokes is the fact that everyone has to climb so many stairs to get to the apartment). Corie decorates the small, leaky apartment, turning it into a picturesque little home for the two. One of the many odd people living in the apartment building, Victor Velasco (Boyer), befriends Corie, often even flirting with her. He lives in the attic of the building, one time climbing through the Bratter's apartment's window to get to his. Victor helps Corie with the apartment, teaching her how to work the seemingly broken heating and plumbing.
Corie, Paul, Victor, and Corie's mother, Ethel Banks, go out to eat, in a scheme to get Corie's mother to fall for Victor; Corie feels that her mother is lonely now that she lives alone and needs love. Victor takes them all to an Austrian restaurant, where he knows the owner, on Staten Island. There, the group drinks, and Corie and Victor get up to dance with the entertainers. Afterwards, Corie and Paul return to their apartment and begin an argument over their differences, but eventually go to sleep, Paul sleeping on the couch under a hole in the skylight.
The next day, Paul catches a cold, but Corie still kicks him out of the apartment, saying she wants a divorce. She then gets a call from her aunt, saying tht Ethel did not come home. Scared, Corie begins to panic, but eventually finds out that her mother was at Victor's apartment.
Meanwhile, drunk, Paul skips work and sits in the park. Corie finds the shoeless and drunk Paul now that she is in a much more sensible mood. However, still fairly drunk, Paul climbs onto the roof of the apartment. Sobering up, he becomes scared and almost falls off. Corie climbs up onto the roof and helps him.

Cast

Actor	Role
Robert Redford	Paul Bratter
Jane Fonda	Corie Bratter
Charles Boyer	Victor Velasco
Mildred Natwick	Ethel Banks
Herb Edelman	Harry Pepper
Mabel Albertson	Harriet
Fritz Feld	Restaurant Proprietor
James Stone	Delivery Man
Ted Hartley	Frank

Taglines

★ Wake up! Make love! Fall over laughing!!!

★ Break the rules! Make love! Fall over laughing!

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