Sydney Pollack's film about a Danish woman who travels to Kenya to manage a coffee farm and then falls in love with a big-game hunter quickly becomes stale and uninteresting. Had the film been 2hr. long, Pollack might have had something. As it is, the simplistic love story doesn't earn its epic 2hr. and 40min. running time. It's laughable that the film won not one but SEVEN Academy Awards! Still, Meryl Streep and Robert Redford are both very good in their respective roles.

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Epic and beautiful. I loved every minute that they weren't talking about syphillus.

"It's an odd feeling, farewell. There is such envy in it."

Glacially slow and not particularly rewarding, Out of Africa still can boast a great Meryl Streep performance and a gorgeous, sweeping John Barry score.

I'm a sucker for romantic epics taking place in foreign settings. Out of Africa is a sprawling, absorbing, and dramatic masterpiece that deserves more attention.

Sydney Pollack's film about a Danish woman who travels to Kenya to manage a coffee farm and then falls in love with a big-game hunter quickly becomes stale and uninteresting. Had the film been 2hr. long, Pollack might have had something. As it is, the simplistic love story doesn't earn its epic 2hr. and 40min. running time. It's laughable that the film won not one but SEVEN Academy Awards! Still, Meryl Streep and Robert Redford are both very good in their respective roles.

based on Karen Blixen's memoirs (her pen name was Isak Dennison).. she was a writer, mainly short stories..

Interestingly, she wrote the short story from which the beautiful film "Babette's Feast" by Gabriel Axel was created.

It's just my opinion, but this is a story about a woman and her relationship with a place, not a person. The Robert Redford character is a subplot - a minor story that begins and ends in Act II. Casting a top shelf star in this supporting role completely changes the balance of the film - their Act II relationship becomes the primary plot line and it shouldn't.

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