- Up the Sandbox
Infobox Film
name = Up The Sandbox
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caption = Original poster
director =Irvin Kershner
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writer =Anne Richardson Roiphe (novel)Paul Zindel
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starring =Barbra Streisand
David Selby
music = Billy Goldenberg
cinematography = Gordon Willis
editing = Robert Lawrence
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released =21 December 1972
runtime = 97 min
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0069449"Up The Sandbox" is a 1972 American comedy
film directed byIrvin Kershner .Paul Zindel 's screenplay, based on the novel byAnne Richardson Roiphe , focuses on Margaret Reynolds, a youngNew York City wife and mother who, neglected by her husband and bored with her daily existence, slips into increasingly bizarre fantasies that involve, among other things, armed robbery, tribal fertility music, and aterrorist plot to blow up theStatue of Liberty .The cast includes
Barbra Streisand ,David Selby ,Paul Benedict ,George S. Irving ,Conrad Bain ,Isabel Sanford ,Lois Smith , andStockard Channing in her film debut.Critics in general were impressed by Streisand's performance but thought the film itself was a confusing mess. Audiences avoided it in droves, and it proved to be one of her lowest-grossing films ever.
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*imdb title|0069449
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