The Owl And The Pussycat | 
| Director: Herbert Ross
Actors: Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Robert Klein, Allen Garfield, Roz Kelly
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 27474
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Chinese (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Portuguese (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: COLD04751D
ISBN: 0767847474
UPC: 043396047518
EAN: 9780767847476
ASIN: B00005QCTZ
Theatrical Release Date: November 3, 1970
Release Date: November 27, 2001
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Product Description
A call girl becomes involved with an intellectual clerk in this hilarious adaptation of the broadway play. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: Barbra Streisand Robert Klein Run time: 96 minutes Rating: Nr
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Good credentials abound in this 1970 adaptation of Bill Manoff's hit Broadway comedy. Buck Henry wrote the screenplay, and Herbert Ross (The Turning Point) directs the surprisingly funny pairing of Barbra Streisand and George Segal as, respectively, a semi-literate prostitute and an egghead. Streisand and Segal turn out to have excellent complementary styles (both are good at playing incredulity), and while the film is not always as witty as it could be, scenes are crisp and highly entertaining. --Tom Keogh
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| Customer Reviews: Read 26 more reviews...
 LOUSY EDITED VERSION!!!!! May 28, 2009
Joseph D. Huffman (Tennessee)
This has always been one of my favorite Streisand films, but they have made an unbelievably criminal mistake in releasing the edited version. I originally saw this--as a youngster--on late-night (pre-cable) TV, with the "F word" intact, and it was absolutely brilliant! This version is crap! PLEASE RELEASE THE ORIGINAL R-RATED FILM!!!!!!
 "Just want to mention in Passing" May 13, 2009
Dwight R. Price, Jr.
Everyone's villification of the editing is dead on, so I won't say anything with regard to that which others know more of than I.
But I do think it worthwhile to mention that the music for this movie is provided by the "Classic" version of "Blood, Sweat & Tears. I think they did a great job considering the frenetic prose style of the play. I'd like to hear a reissue of the music cues written by Dick Halligan and played by B,S&T. Not all the cues on the record are in the movie and not all the cues in the movie are on the record. FRUSTRATING!
 What happened to the "F" word? September 6, 2007
P. Skalisky (Sacramento, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My girlfriend and I saw this movie when it first came out in 1970. There was a scene involving the main characters where Barbra tells these guys to "F" off. I remember it vividly because my friend and I turned to one another in shock... "Did she actually use that word in a movie?" It was the first time we'd ever heard it used on the big screen and were indeed shcoked. I was more shocked when it didn't appear in the DVD version and had apparently been cut... however, the movie was just as good and as funny as when I first saw it and Barbra Streisand and George Segal have a great on-sceen chemistry and the story line is funny. There is nothing politically correct about the movie so be prepared to be entertained and shocked at what the movie characters have to say. Thoroughly enjoyable even though 37 years have passed.
 One Loud Hooker Plus One Insecure Writer Equals a Match Made Only in the Movies September 14, 2006
Ed Uyeshima (San Francisco, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After three big-budget Broadway-based period musicals in a row, Barbra Streisand obviously made a conscious career decision to convey a more contemporary image onscreen. She succeeds in spades in this often hilarious 1970 comedy adapted by Buck Henry from a hit Bill Manhoff play and directed by Herbert Ross. Streisand plays Doris, a loud-mouthed fetish hooker who claims to be a model and an actress. She gets thrown out of her apartment when her neighbor, a nebbish bookstore clerk and aspiring writer named Felix Sherman, reports her clandestine activities to the landlord. This causes a confrontation in which she is convinced he's gay and seduces him in a surprisingly graphic scene (at least surprising for Streisand). Another fight ensues causing them to get kicked out of his apartment. The rest of the film is mostly their bickering as they travel from one apartment to the next and carry out their improbable, Pygmalion-like opposites-attract romance.
In the same year he made two greatly underrated films, the mature "Loving" and the manic "Where's Poppa?", George Segal makes Felix a lovably insecure schlub and provides great chemistry with Streisand in her first non-singing role. They have a great scene in the bathtub where both are completely stoned as his fiancee and her parents walk in, and he has a funny scene where he pretends to be the TV to help Doris get to sleep. For Streisand's part, she wears a hysterically tacky negligee, dances in a go-go cage, appears in a soft-porn flick called "Cycle Sluts" (we only hear the riotous audio - "Where are you putting THAT?") and says the "F" word (unfortunately cut out of the DVD version though it's obvious when she says it). It's not her best screen performance, but it's one of her funniest. Henry's sharp dialogue and Ross' quick pacing help considerably in making this an enjoyably vulgar romantic comedy. The 2001 DVD had no extras other than three trailers, none for this movie.
A Fine Owl and One Cute Pussycat!!! March 9, 2006
K. Person
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
After seeing this movie I became amazed that it had taken me such an effort to find a copy of it to rent anywhere. It is a very funny, warm and intelligent piece about friendship that I would recommend to anyone. With great performances by both George Segal and Barbra Striesand. Believe me when I say that all I wanted to do after I saw this film was take a Bubble Bath with Barbra.
K.P.
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