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Up the Sandbox

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

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Pauline Kael The New Yorker 09/29/2023
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. Go to Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 10/23/2004
3/4
[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. Go to Full Review Arthur Steele Birmingham Mail 09/27/2023
It sounds wildly eccentric -- but it's clever and often very, very funny. Go to Full Review Phil Hall Examiner.com 05/29/2015
1/5
A Babs boo-boo. Go to Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 06/17/2005
2/5
Tony Mastroianni Cleveland Press 11/20/2003
Up the Sandbox is a lesser movie than most of the pictures Barbra Streisand has made. But it is a greater personal triumph. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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CodyZamboni 09/02/2023 Barbra Streisand is so radiant and beautiful, but her fantasies are dumb , inane, not funny, and sometimes, tasteless. See more 07/19/2019 Tedious......geez.....trying so hard to be meaningful, it winds up meaningless. Watch On A Clear Day and be done with it! See more 06/10/2018 Under rated film.... See more 08/10/2016 A woman struggles with her recent pregnancy news in this forgettable drama. See more 12/27/2013 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. See more 08/03/2013 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 See more Read all reviews
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Irvin Kershner

Director

Barbra Streisand

Margaret Reynolds

David Selby

Paul Reynolds

Ariane Heller

Elizabeth Reynolds

Gary Smith

Peter

Jane Hoffman

Mrs. Koerner

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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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