Up the Sandbox
Up the Sandbox

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A young wife and mother, bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Up the Sandbox:

Barbra Streisand
David Selby
Ariane Heller
Terry Smith
Gary Smith
Jane Hoffman

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A young wife and mother, bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.

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Cleveland Press - 4/10 by Tony MastroianniUp the Sandbox is a lesser movie than most of the pictures Barbra Streisand has made. But it is a greater personal triumph.
User Review - 10/10 by Private UThis almost completely forgotten film (except to Barbra's die-hard fans) is an interesting look into the lives and social pressures of the average American woman during the early 1970's. Adapted from Anne Richardson Roiphe's feminist novel of the same name, the film is charming with an over-all upbeat indie feel. Streisand's portrayal of Margaret is very low key, leaving out much of the bravado and distinct acting style she is known for. This works to the film's advantage as it enables the viewer to see her character and not "Barbra Streisand playing a character". The musical score is also low key, but mellow and enjoyable. A vocal version of the ending theme, "If I Close My Eyes", was recorded by Streisand for use over the credits, but ultimately not used at her request. Barbra wanted the viewers to come away still focused on the themes and messages in the movie and not her vocal performance. The song was instead released as a promotional single. The song was later included on her "Just for the Record..." 3CD boxset. While a good film, its biggest flaw is the fantasy sequences, which are used to juxtapose Margaret's internal struggles with her identity as a woman in modern society and dissatisfaction with her life choices to that of her daily life and role as a mother. These sequences, which are bizarre and outlandish, are not executed well in terms of their initial execution. The transition between fantasy and reality is so subtle that the viewer is thrown for a loop when snapped back into reality, because they didn't realize they'd strayed into fantasy to begin with. This was also a problem in the book, as every other chapter was a fantasy sequence but this was not stated anywhere. As a reader you were left to figure out the pattern on your own, which proved more difficult than it sounds as many of the fantasies were closely in line with Margaret's daily activities. By today's standards the film is very dated, but it makes for a good intellectual commentary about the plight of women in the changing social climate of the early 1970's. I definitely recommend this film, but advise that you go into it with no expectations and a very open mind knowing that it might take a few viewings to really get out of it the messages that are trying to be conveyed.
User Review - 10/10 by Courtney Hsooooo funny,and stupid. but its entertaining too.
User Review - 10/10 by Roger HBizarre and surreal. And one of Streisand's finest performances.
User Review - 10/10 by Matthew SI've never understood the dismissive tone people took towards this wonderful, life affirming film. It's a mystery to me.
User Review - 10/10 by Léo BA wonderfully and wittily serious feminist comedy about a woman's fears and regrets. Barbra Streisand's never been more radiant than in this amazing movie.
User Review - 10/10 by Tim CThe only reason why this film flopped in the early 70s was that people got confused with then unconventional approaches used to show a woman under social and personal pressure of motherhood and the obligations of her sex in changing times. Instead of dealing with the reality of her third pregnancy, Barbra's Streisand's Margaret Reynolds has fantasies that range from blowing up the Statue of Liberty to being seduced by a cross-dressing South American dictator to standing up to her smothering mother. These flashbacks do not come with the conventional entrance, and that is what confused audiences at the time. Irvin Kershner, the same director who directed The Empire Strikes Back, did an excellent job directing this unconventional social commentary comedy and Barbra Streisand just fit into her role like a shoe fits into a foot. The film does a great job in showing what pressures women face in every day life, and is one of the first images on film that motherhood isn't all picket fences, chocolate chip cookies, and Leave It To Beaver excess dribble. It was realistic, and if it weren't for this film, realistic portrayals of motherhood wouldn't soon follow.
User Review - 10/10 by Bumdog TA fictional exploration of many of the womenâ??s issues which at the time were just beginning to be discussed: Raising Children vs. Pursuing a Career, Asserting Individuality vs. Cooperating in a Marriage. The Joys of Motherhood vs. the Necessity of Abortion, and the husbandâ??s powerful influence over these decisions (an influence, in the case of the abortion, that is played out long before he becomes aware of the issue). It goes into the role that women were playing out at the time, and the debate of what their future role should be. At one point it even veers into the subject of revolutionary terrorism and interracial romance (an element the Streisand says the studio insisted be cut out). Watching it again I really loved the cinematography, but the movie over all was just ok. The documentary feel of the photography complements the acting in a production that heavily emphasized improvisation, as well as the running theme of the film, which was this married with children womanâ??s fantasy life. As such its one of those films were the parts are greater then the whole. Although it falls far short of the film it could have been, as a film it is still critically underrated. One of the reasons for this is that Streisand was at the time at the height of her pop icon status. Because she was its star it is considered a failed pop movie, whereas if it had starred Gena Rowlands it would be remember as a well-crafted art film. And if you didnâ??t change a single frame of film made it from France, or inserted John Cassevettes name, instead of Irvin Kershner, they would be writing books on what a work of genius this was.
User Review - 8/10 by Luigi DLa película "Up the Sandbox" representa lo mejor de aquellas pequeñas joyas escondidas del cine americano de los años 70: es irreverente, posee una fuerte carga ideológica, es crítica de los valores socialmente aceptados y su oscuro humor transita de lo bizarro a lo políticamente incorrecto. Barbra Streisand brilla en la mejor interpretación de su carrera como una mujer cuyas realidades y fantasías empiezan a intercalarse a raíz de que descubre que se encuentra embarazada por tercera vez. Especialmente memorable es el número musical con Fidel Castro... ¡un pequeño clásico!
User Review - 8/10 by Matty SDismissed at the time of its release, Irvin Kershner's adaptation of Anne Richardson Roiphe's novel is a fascinating bit of post-Femnist surrealism. This is also one of the few films in which Barbra Streisand plays someone other than an idea of herself. She is completely believable as intellectual middle class housewife. The mixture of fantasy and real becomes so artistically convoluted that one is left wondering where the story might be headed. There is magic in this tiny puzzle of a film.

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