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      Up the Sandbox

      R Released Dec 21, 1972 1h 37m Comedy Drama List
      71% 7 Reviews Tomatometer 49% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score A Manhattan professor's (David Selby) pregnant wife (Barbra Streisand) has fantasies, which include her mother and Fidel Castro. Read More Read Less

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      CodyZamboni Barbra Streisand is so radiant and beautiful, but her fantasies are dumb , inane, not funny, and sometimes, tasteless. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Tedious......geez.....trying so hard to be meaningful, it winds up meaningless. Watch On A Clear Day and be done with it! Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Under rated film.... Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review roger a Bizarre and surreal. And one of Streisand's finest performances. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A woman struggles with her recent pregnancy news in this forgettable drama. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Dismissed at the time of its release, Irvin Kershner's adaptation of Anne Richardson Roiphe's novel is a fascinating bit of post-Femnist surrealism. This is also one of the few films in which Barbra Streisand plays someone other than an idea of herself. She is completely believable as intellectual middle class housewife. The mixture of fantasy and real becomes so artistically convoluted that one is left wondering where the story might be headed. There is magic in this tiny puzzle of a film. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Pauline Kael New Yorker Up the Sandbox is a joyful mess -- a picture, full of sass and enthusiasm and comic strokes, that doesn’t seem to have discovered what it’s meant to be about. Sep 29, 2023 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times [Streisand] does not give us a liberated woman, or even a woman working in some organized way toward liberation. Instead, she gives us a woman who feels free to be herself, no matter what anyone thinks. Rated: 3/4 Oct 23, 2004 Full Review Arthur Steele Birmingham Mail It sounds wildly eccentric -- but it's clever and often very, very funny. Sep 27, 2023 Full Review Phil Hall Examiner.com A Babs boo-boo. Rated: 1/5 May 29, 2015 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Jun 17, 2005 Full Review Michael Szymanski Zap2it.com Rated: 3/5 Jun 1, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A Manhattan professor's (David Selby) pregnant wife (Barbra Streisand) has fantasies, which include her mother and Fidel Castro.
      Director
      Irvin Kershner
      Screenwriter
      Paul Zindel
      Production Co
      National General
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Dec 21, 1972, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Aug 19, 2019
      Runtime
      1h 37m
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