Up the Sandbox | 
| Director: Irvin Kershner
Actors: Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Ariane Heller, Terry Smith (vii), Gary Smith (viii)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 67278
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD11325D
ISBN: 0790768143
UPC: 085391132523
EAN: 9780790768144
ASIN: B00006FDCB
Theatrical Release Date: 1972
Release Date: July 1, 2003
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Though not as successful as What's Up, Doc? or The Way We Were, Up the Sandbox springs from the early 1970s, when Barbra Streisand's career was in full stride. Streisand stars as Margaret, a stay-at-home mom in the middle of New York who's feeling the strain of her narrow life. Frustrated by her self-involved husband and the emotionally rewarding but mentally unstimulating tasks of motherhood, she escapes into fantasies--such as being hit on by a cross-gendered Fidel Castro, bombing the Statue of Liberty with black militants, and having a furious catfight with her overbearing mother. The movie's strength lies in these fantasies' slippery nature; some are over the top, but others are so subtle you're not always sure where they start and stop, making the portrait of Margaret's psyche intriguingly complex. Streisand fans should check out this sleeper. --Bret Fetzer
Product Description
Zany antics prevail in this screwball comedy about an eccentric woman and an equally eccentric professor. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 12/06/2005 Starring: Barbra Streisand Jane Hoffman Run time: 98 minutes Rating: R
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 one of my favorites January 7, 2009
D. Krajcar (netherlands)
This movie is about a woman who is not entirely happy with her life, of course she loves her family but she wants more, and if she finds out she is pregnant again, the question is what to do...
So she starts to fantasise about what she want to tell her too opnionated mother and what she could be doing instead of sitting at home taking care of the children and waiting for her husband to come home.
Special features: Commentary by Barbra Streisand and Irvin Keshner & trailer.
A New Age Story and A Fantastic Barbra August 29, 2008
Joseph Albanese (New York, New York United States)
An excellent dramatic turn! No one ever doubted Barbra Streisand's ability with a song. No one doubted her comedic talents after seeing her in Funny Girl and then Hello Dolly. But, like every actress since time began, Ms. Streisand wanted to prove herself to be something more than just a song bird or a person who could recreate a Broadway character on the silver screen. In Up The Sandbox, Ms. Streisand got her chance. Based on a novel by Rolphie, it is the story of a Manhattan housewife and mother of very small children who escapes into a world of day dreams to leave the drugery of her existence without abandoning it. Set in the turbulent 60's, Up The Sandbox is both a coming-of-age story and a tale about women's liberation at the beginning. Barbra Streisand is credible as she walks the fine line between an upper-West side mother and imaginary superhero. Unfortanately, one of her daydreams involves blowing up the Statue of Liberty which, today, makes this film a difficult one to appreciate. But taken as a period piece, it is quite innovative and although hardly covering any groundbreaking areas, it is an imaginative, well active and written movie that should appeal to most.
 Barbra's Worst May 14, 2007
Nubbin Nelson
I love Barbra Streisand and I couldn't believe just how bad this movie was. I was very disappointed but would have bought it anyway to add to my collection.
 Strange, Overlooked, Underrated, Controversial I Think December 31, 2006
Jurai's Heir (Denham Springs, LA, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is probarly one of Barbra's most underrated films she ever made. The movie is about a young wife & mother, living in New York (where Barbra was born & raised), raising her two children while her husband (David Selby) works day & night as a professor at some college. After Barbra finds out that she is pregnant for the third time, she starts to slip into outrageous fantasies, everything from Fidel Castro being a woman, (which I totally understand now, thanks to Barbra's commentary for the movie) to thinking her husband is having a affair with one of his co-workers at the college. It seems that watching this film I like it more & more each time, for the funny part I knew what was & was not a fantasy, for the reality part I didn't get what was behind the little things that you don't really understand or notice, until you listen to the commentary with Barbra. I really liked this film & up to this point this was Barbra's most dramatic role yet and she is great in it!, so check it out!.
Underappreciated Dramedy With Streisand Superb as a Confused Wife and Mother June 28, 2006
Ed Uyeshima (San Francisco, CA USA)
It's a shame that this 1972 dramedy is not better remembered because it holds up quite well and probably contains Barbra Streisand's most impressive performance in a contemporary setting. She portrays Margaret Reynolds, an ordinary New York City housewife and mother of two, who finds out she is pregnant again. Beset with a workaholic academic husband and a suffocating mother, she undergoes a major identity crisis and gets lost in periodic fantasies that provide an outlet for her deepest feelings. While the film has an undeniable 1970's "I'm-OK-You're-OK" tone about it, the story is a mature character study of its proto-feminist heroine thanks to Paul Zindel's perceptive screenplay based on the best-selling novel by Anne Richardson Roiphe.
Moreover, director Irvin Kershner brings a great deal of humanity to the film even as the fantasies escalate in scope and incredulousness. These include a revealing tango with Fidel Castro; a bomb planted inside the Statue of Liberty (deeply ironic that the World Trade Center is still under construction in the background); a disastrous confrontation at her parents' 33rd anniversary party; the fatalistic rituals of a female-dominated Samburu tribe in Kenya; and a dream-like sequence at an abortion critic. Sometimes, the transitions between real-life and fantasy are too subtle to be completely effective (for example, using incidental characters as major figures in the fantasy sequences), but Kershner shows an intimate understanding of the heroine's evolution even if the final resolution seems rather pat.
For once, Streisand is naturally radiant and blessedly life-sized with little of her chutzpah-driven mannerisms. She plays it so low-key that you wish she would do more indie films to show her vulnerable side. Smaller roles are ably filled with David Selby nicely underplaying her preoccupied husband Paul. The 2003 DVD is quite a treat with Streisand and Kershner providing insightful commentary on separate tracks. Unlike her brief track for "What's Up, Doc?", Streisand speaks throughout the film and still seems very passionate about it, articulating the various themes and explaining what kind of movie they were trying to make. Along with the original theatrical trailer (which seems quite confused as to what it is marketing), there is also an interesting ten-minute vintage making-of featurette that focuses mainly on Streisand's travels to Kenya to film the tribal fantasy sequence.
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