Pauline Kael

“…. Blythe Danner comes close to creating a believable woman out of an idealized mother figure, and she brings in shadings that help to suggest a real family, but as the genteel Southerner who mediates between her uncouth Northerner husband and their children, the finest young actress in the American theatre is confined to an essentially undramatic role. (She doesn’t have a single scene that is really hers.)….”

Pauline Kael
The New Yorker, September 1, 1980
Taking It All In, p. 52