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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Barbra Streisand |
| Stars: |
Barbra Streisand |
| Genre: |
Musical & Performing Arts |
| Subgenre: |
Romances · Switching Roles · Campus Life · Deception · Jewish Heritage · Musicals |
| MPAA Rating: |
PG (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: Director's Extended Edition; Checkpoint; Sensormatic; Widesc |
| UPC: |
883904117773 |
| Release Date: |
1983 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 14min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Canadian; Sensormatic; Widescreen, 2hr 13min
Release Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (February 03, 2009)
UPC: 883904117315 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 2hr 14min
Release Company: CBS/Fox Video (August 16, 1989)
UPC: 086162472435 |
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Professional Reviews
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(11/02/1983, Cart.): "...Carefully and lovingly done in every respect....[Streisand] is constantly vibrant and inventive before the camera..." |
| More Information |
| Details: |
Barbra Streisand cowrote, produced, and directed as well as starred in this popular motion picture, based on a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story follows the adventures of Yentl, a courageous young woman growing up in Eastern Europe at the turn of the 20th century. Inspired by her father's teaching to become a Talmudic scholar--despite the religious restrictions against her doing so--she manages to make her dreams come true by disguising herself as a boy and entering an orthodox Jewish school. But her masquerade causes big problems when she falls in love with her fellow scholar Avigdor (Mandy Patinkin)...and his fiancie (Amy Irving, in an Oscar-nominated performance) falls in love with her. In an interesting twist on the musical genre, Streisand performs each song as an interior soliloquy, as if she were speaking to herself. This lends the film an air of analysis and introspection, two notions not commonly found in a musical but which would later be employed to great effect in movies such as... |
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