Up the Sandbox

Up the Sandbox

1972 · 97 min · EN · R · 5.9 (25 votes)
Dir. Irvin Kershner · Starring Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Ariane Heller, Terry Smith, Gary Smith, Jane Hoffman

“What's Barbra up to? Up the marriage trap. Up the revolution. Up the Zambesi River. And up to something surprisingly wonderful.”

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Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother 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.

VIBE

This film feels like a whimsical dive into the mind of a woman yearning for more than her mundane reality. It's a blend of quiet frustration and vibrant, often absurd, fantasy, offering a liberating escape into the surreal. The experience is both introspective and playfully imaginative, exploring the boundaries of a constrained life.

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