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Up the Sandbox is a 1972 American comedy-drama film directed by Irvin Kershner, with a screenplay by Paul Zindel, based on the novel of the same name by Anne Roiphe. The film stars Barbra Streisand as a young wife and mother in Manhattan, who slips into increasingly bizarre fantasies to escape the predicament of her pregnancy.
Apr 18, 1973 · Up the Sandbox: Directed by Irvin Kershner. With Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Ariane Heller, Terry Smith. A bored housewife takes refuge in a fantasy world.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Irvin Kershner
- 1973-04-18
Up the Sandbox. It's a little hard to make a movie about a woman's liberation when the woman in question is happy with her life, in love with her husband, and looking forward to having her third child. Such a woman somehow doesn't seem to be your typical MS subscriber.
A Manhattan professor's (David Selby) pregnant wife (Barbra Streisand) has fantasies, which include her mother and Fidel Castro.
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- Irvin Kershner
- R
- Barbra Streisand
Jul 8, 2014 · A complete modern woman's identity crisis is hatching - with an uncontrollable fantasy life including a romance with Fidel Castro. As Margaret, Barbra Streisand goes Up the Sandbox for a...
- 2 min
- 18.1K
- Warner Bros.
Swept up by being recognized for her intellectual capabilities, Margaret fantasizes that she and Loffert attend a press conference for Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who castigates Americans for not giving women equal opportunities.
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Streisand stars as a pregnant housewife who, feeling trapped in a mediocre life, dreams up various outrageous fantasies to escape her tedium.