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Staring:
Goldie Hawn,
Edward Albert,
Eileen Heckart,
Paul Michael Glaser,
Michael Warren
Director:
Milton Katselas
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: $14.94
Our Price: $8.11
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767881401
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767881400
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2002-04-23
Running Time: 109
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1972 |
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Product Description
A blind young man, Don Baker (Edward Albert) who is determined to make a life for himself despite his handicap.
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Butterflies are Free, 2010-03-07
My favorite Goldie Hawn movie. Debut film for Edward Albert, great acting. Sad to hear he passed away 2006.
PISS POOR COMPANY, 2009-11-11
I am not rating the dvd one star.. I am rating the sellers with a 0. I never received this product from this seller. I tried to contact them 2 times, and got ignored... DO NOT BUY FROM THIS SELLER!!! ever!!!
still relevent today, 2010-06-30
This is a charming movie about desire for independence but also about fear and letting go. This film still resounds with young people who are blind so while the groovy clothes may have changed the experience has not. Enjoy.
Thoughtful and Touching.., 2010-05-31
I know it's shallow, but I just didn't know if I could sit through a 70's movie complete with drab colors, weird wardrobe, and outdated social concepts. My fears were completely unfounded. What a film!
My heart ached for Donny Baker's character, played magnificently by Edward Albert, to find the freedom and love he sought, in spite of the challenge of being born blind and having an well-meaning, but domineering and over-protective mother.
All the more heart-rending is Don's incredible courage and fierce insistence on being treated just like anyone else. Don does not pity himself for his handicap, and he does not want the audience to either, which makes him all the more real and lovable. Don demands to be seen as a person, not as a blind person. In certain scenes, Don's advocacy for equal treatment shows us how sometimes even our kindnesses might be experienced as patronizing. How did actor Edward Albert create a character that ropes you in entirely, and makes you root for him desperately. Not only that, but he is easy on the eyes as well.
The film feels like a stage play with tight attention on the day's events, as well as snappy dialogue between the central characters. Ample tension between Don, his mother Mrs Baker, as well as Mrs. Baker and Don's love interest, played perfectly by Goldie Hawn, keeps you on your toes and hoping for the best, in spite of the agony of the unknown.
If you are feeling slight sorry for yourself, watch Butterflies are Free. I guarantee you, it will put everything in perspective!
Couldn't watch it all - irritatÃngly cute, 2010-03-12
I couldn't take too much of this film - when the blind fellow began to play the guitar, that was it for me.
The actress who played the mother won an Oscar for her performance, so I should have another look at the film the next time
it's on Turner Classic Movies. But buy it? No way. I erased it after seeing about 40 minutes of it. I agree with the
other one star review.
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