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Up the Sandbox

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Up the Sandbox

R

Released Dec 21, 1972

1h 37m

Comedy

Drama

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A Manhattan professor's (David Selby) pregnant wife (Barbra Streisand) has fantasies, which include her mother and Fidel Castro.

Pauline Kael

The 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

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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

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Arthur Steele

Birmingham Mail

It sounds wildly eccentric -- but it's clever and often very, very funny.

Sep 27, 2023

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Phil Hall

Examiner.com

A Babs boo-boo.

Rated: 1/5

May 29, 2015

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 2/5

Jun 17, 2005

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Tony Mastroianni

Cleveland Press

Up the Sandbox is a lesser movie than most of the pictures Barbra Streisand has made. But it is a greater personal triumph.

Nov 20, 2003

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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

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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

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Audience Member

Under rated film....

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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Audience Member

A woman struggles with her recent pregnancy news in this forgettable drama.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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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

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Audience Member

a frame of time focusing in on what a woman was supposed to be in that era and focusing on the caused psychological effects. could've been valuable in its day but doesn't make much of a statement to me now. for me the hopeless housewife coming to terms with her existence falls flat

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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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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