Up the Sandbox

Up the Sandbox
by Irvin Kershner

Up the Sandbox
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Actor: Ariane Heller, Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Gary Smith (VIII), Terry Smith (VII)
Director: Irvin Kershner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video

Movie Reviews of Up the Sandbox

Movie Review: A New Age Story and A Fantastic Barbra
Summary: 5 Stars

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.

Summary of Up the Sandbox

A woman contemplates trying to tell her husband she is pregnant yet again, her attempts puncuated by her own fears and fantasies.
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

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