United States

THIS IS VINTAGE STREISAND ...ALL HER HUMOUR ...ALL HER PATHOS ...ALL HER APPEAL
The incomparable Barbra Streisand takes you on a magical mystery tour through the liberated mind of a Manhattan housewife. Margaret Reynolds has everything you could wish for. A brilliant professor husband, two children and a mother who loves her just a little too much. But she needs more out of what she feels is a mundane existence. So discontented, disappointed - and to make matters worse, pregnant again! - she fantasizes herself into a series of various strange and outrageously wonderful situations:- She meets her husband's mistress and takes a trip up the Zambezi river! She learns that Fidel Castro is really a woman and helps Black revolutionaries blow up the Statue of Liberty! She changes her figure for a far more voluptuous one and takes out a dreadful revenge on her domineering mother! Then there is the suicide attempt.... But it isn't long before Ms. Walter Mitty finally returns to reality with a bump. "A fine film and an important one in the treatment of female versus femininity" - Cue magazine. "Streisand can never really fail to light up the screen" - Interview magazine. "The maturity, the depth and the vision Streisand has achieved as a woman and an actress are really joyous to observe" - Rex Reed. "Streisand shows a much deeper and warmer presence in Up the Sandbox" - Judith Crist. Up the Sandbox is directed by Irvin Kershner, the man who made The Empire Strikes Back and Never Say Never Again such internationally renowned box-office smashes.