
Max Baron (James Spader) is a 27-year-old high-flying advertising executive still recovering from the death of his wife. One night he is in a bar when he meets Nora Baker (Susan Sarandon), a 43-year-old waitress with a fixation on Marilyn Monroe. The couple gradually fall in love, though age and social differences mean that the path of true love is strewn with problems.... (Full plot summary below)
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Max Baron (James Spader) is a 27-year-old high-flying advertising executive still recovering from the death of his wife. One night he is in a bar when he meets Nora Baker (Susan Sarandon), a 43-year-old waitress with a fixation on Marilyn Monroe. The couple gradually fall in love, though age and social differences mean that the path of true love is strewn with problems.
Leave your thoughts about White Palace.
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThe psychodrama is never as bad or as good as it could be. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThere's a lot that's good in White Palace, involving the heart as well as the mind. |
| Associated PressDolores BarclayWhite Palace is more than a romance or a bedroom romp or human comedy. It is a lesson in judgments and values, and a glimpse at emotional roulette. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrNo more convincing on screen than it was on the page. But it is greatly helped by the presence of Mr. Spader, who was apparently born to play life-denying, icy-veined young heroes, and especially Ms. Sarandon, who has made a career out of coaxing such characters out of their buttoned-down ways. |
| EmpireTom TunneyBeautifully observed stuff, classy performances, and an occasionally exquisitely funny movie. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumNeither character is especially well defined, particularly if one discounts the strident overdefinition of their respective milieus, but as an old-fashioned Hollywood romance in which anything can happen, this is reasonably watchable, and at times mildly funny. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanSpader and Sarandon make White Palace worth seeing, but too often they’re fighting the movie’s smugness. |
| Miami HeraldJuan Carlos CotoMade up of tiny, non-nutritious patties, this movie is a buffet of Hollywood nothingness. |
| MovieholeClint MorrisDespite excellent performanes, the film moves so slow you'll have nodded off by the time the good bits come |
| Washington PostHal HinsonWhile this sort of thing may have worked in the '30s, by today's standards it's half-baked. |