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Funny Girl (1968)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:36
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: Barbara Streisand elevates this otherwise rote melodramatic musical with her ultra-memorable star turn as Fanny Brice.
Runtime: 2 hrs 49 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
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... 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 powerful singing. Unfortunately, she had far less success in her personal life, and the film focuses on her doomed romance with her first husband, gambler Nicky Arnstein. [More]
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Mae Questel, Gerald Mohr, Frank Faylen
Director: William Wyler
Director: William Wyler
Producer: Ray Stark
Screenwriter: Isobel Lennart
Composer: Jule Styne, Robert Merrill
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Reviews for Funny Girl
You will have made your mind up about Babs one way or the other, but for the rare uninitiated, this is a fine introduction to her talents.
Streisand is stunning, but the film is a trial, particularly when the music disappears somewhere around the 90-minute mark and all that's left is leaden melodrama.
A fine movie musical and a nice reminder of the time when Streisand was a talent rather than a 'phenomenon'.
This extended Streisand Special has done absolutely nothing to correct the flaws in the Broadway original.
Few film debuts in the 1960s were more auspicious than that of Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl.
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.
[Streisand gives] a natural, unforced performance, easily one of the three or four best Best Actresses in Oscar history.
You will have made your mind up about Babs one way or the other, but for the rare uninitiated, this is a fine introduction to her talents.
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.
It is impossible to praise Miss Streisand too highly; hard to find much to praise about the rest of the film.
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.
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