Funny Girl (1968)
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Reviews Counted: 31 Fresh: 30 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 49 mins
Synopsis: In FUNNY GIRL, the highly fictionalized musical biopic, Barbara Streisand makes her film debut in a reprisal of her Broadway role as Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice. Brice, a poor Jewish girl from New York's Lower East Side, rose to fame and won audience's hearts everywhere with her comic antics and... [More]
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon
Director: William Wyler
Producer: Ray Stark
Screenwriter: Isobel Lennart
Composer: Jule Styne, Robert Merrill
Producer: Ray Stark
Screenwriter: Isobel Lennart
Composer: Jule Styne, Robert Merrill
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I wish William Wyler's direction was more inventive and humurous (it's his first musical), but Streisand gives a meteoric performance, as Fanny Frice and as herself, showing a tremendous charismatic presence that goes beyond physical looks and acting.
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02/07/08
[Streisand gives] a natural, unforced performance, easily one of the three or four best Best Actresses in Oscar history.
01/28/08
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01/26/06
Given how she grew into perhaps the most annoyingly egocentric entertainer in all the world, it's difficult to imagine that Barbra Streisand was once an ingenue.
09/17/05
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Barbra Streisand gives one of the musical genre's most sublime performances--unfortunately in a stodgy, badly paced, overly produced movie that don't deserve her.
07/31/04
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