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Up the Sandbox

Play trailer Poster for Up the Sandbox R,  1972,  1h 37m,  Comedy/ Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 67% 6 Reviews Tomatometer 49% 1,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
67% Tomatometer 6 Reviews 49% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
A Manhattan professor's (David Selby) pregnant wife (Barbra Streisand) has fantasies, which include her mother and Fidel Castro.

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Pauline Kael The New Yorker Sep 29, 2023
Up the Sandbox is a joyful mess -- a picture, full of sass and enthusiasm and comic strokes, that doesn’t seem to have discovered what it’s meant to be about. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Oct 23, 2004
3/4
[Streisand] does not give us a liberated woman, or even a woman working in some organized way toward liberation. Instead, she gives us a woman who feels free to be herself, no matter what anyone thinks. Go to Full Review
Arthur Steele Birmingham Mail Sep 27, 2023
It sounds wildly eccentric -- but it's clever and often very, very funny. Go to Full Review
Phil Hall Examiner.com May 29, 2015
1/5
A Babs boo-boo. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jun 17, 2005
2/5
Tony Mastroianni Cleveland Press Nov 20, 2003
Up the Sandbox is a lesser movie than most of the pictures Barbra Streisand has made. But it is a greater personal triumph. Go to Full Review
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Poe S Jun 10, 2018 Under rated film....
Draco P Dec 31, 2017 Bizarre and surreal. And one of Streisand's finest performances.
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Up the Sandbox

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Cast & Crew

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Irvin Kershner

Director

Barbra Streisand

Margaret Reynolds

David Selby

Paul Reynolds

Ariane Heller

Elizabeth Reynolds

Gary Smith

Peter

Jane Hoffman

Mrs. Koerner

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Up the Sandbox

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Movie Info

Synopsis A Manhattan professor's (David Selby) pregnant wife (Barbra Streisand) has fantasies, which include her mother and Fidel Castro.
Director
Irvin Kershner
Screenwriter
Paul Zindel
Production Co
National General
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 21, 1972, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 19, 2019
Runtime
1h 37m
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