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Up the Sandbox(Movie, 1972)

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| 1h 37min | Genres: Comedy, Drama
Up the SandboxRating: 3.0/5 (with 77 votes)
Up the Sandbox is a 1972 American comedy-drama film directed by Irvin Kershner, with a screenplay by Paul Zindel, based on the novel of the same name by Anne Roiphe. The film stars Barbra Streisand as a young wife and mother in Manhattan, who slips into increasingly bizarre fantasies to escape the predicament of her pregnancy. The film's supporting cast includes David Selby, Paul Benedict, George S. Irving, Conrad Bain, Isabel Sanford, Lois Smith, Jacobo Morales as a character who closely resembles Fidel Castro, and Stockard Channing in her film debut. The film deals with themes related to feminism and the sexual revolution. Fi... ()
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About Up the Sandbox

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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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Shot in: Kenya
Based on: "Up the Sandbox!" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 8 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO)
Status: Released
Release date US: 12/21/1972
Director: Irvin Kershner
Producer: Robert Chartoff
Screenwriter: Anne Roiphe
Film Editor: Robert Lawrence
Director of Photography: Gordon Willis

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