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Barefoot in the Park (1967)

★ 7.1 · 611 ratings on TMDB

Broadway's barest, rarest, unsquarest love play.

Barefoot in the Park poster★ 7.1

In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their marriage, Corie tries to find a companion for mother, Ethel, who is now alone, and sets up Ethel with neighbor Victor. Inappropriate behavior on a double date causes conflict, and the young couple considers divorce.

The emergence reading

Barefoot in the Park keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.