<P> Billy is at first annoyed by being left with elderly strangers with no friends nearby and nothing to do . He resents Norman's brusque manner, but eventually comes to enjoy their Golden Pond fishing adventures together . Billy and Norman soon grow obsessed with catching Norman's fish rival, named "Walter", which leads to the accidental destruction of the Thayers' motorboat . Chelsea returns to find out her father has made good friends with her fiance's, now husband's, son . But when she sees the change in her father's demeanor, Chelsea attempts something Billy accomplished that she never could: a backflip . Chelsea successfully executes the dive in front of a cheering Norman, Billy, and Ethel . Chelsea and Norman finally fully embrace before she departs with Billy back home . </P> <P> The final day on Golden Pond comes and the Thayers are loading the last of the boxes . Norman tries to move a heavy box, but starts having heart pain and collapses onto the floor of the porch . Ethel tries unsuccessfully to get the operator to phone the hospital . Norman then says the pain is gone and attempts to stand to say a final farewell to the lake . Ethel tells him she has always known about death but for the first time it felt real, thinking Norman was going to die on the spot . Ethel helps Norman to the edge of the lake where they see the loons and Norman notes how they are just like him and Ethel, that their offspring is grown and gone off on her own, and now it is just the two of them . </P> <Ul> <Li> Katharine Hepburn--Ethel Thayer </Li> <Li> Henry Fonda--Norman Thayer Jr . </Li> <Li> Jane Fonda--Chelsea Thayer Wayne </Li> <Li> Doug McKeon--Billy Ray </Li> <Li> Dabney Coleman--Bill Ray </Li> <Li> William Lanteau--Charlie Martin </Li> <Li> Christopher Rydell--Sumner Todd </Li> </Ul> <Li> Katharine Hepburn--Ethel Thayer </Li>

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