Funny Girl (1968)
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 39
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 3
Barbara Streisand elevates this otherwise rote melodramatic musical with her ultra-memorable star turn as Fanny Brice.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 2
Barbara Streisand elevates this otherwise rote melodramatic musical with her ultra-memorable star turn as Fanny Brice.
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"Hello, gorgeous!" was Barbra Streisand's first comment to the Oscar statuette which she won for her performance in this biopic of entertainer Fanny Brice. This is also her first line in the film itself, the catalyst for a movie-long flashback. Repeating her Broadway role, Streisand stars as legendary comedienne Brice (1891-1951), whose life until the mid-1920s is romanticized herein. A gawky New Yawker, Brice fast-talks her way into show business, certain that she's destined to be "The Greatest
Sep 19, 1968 Wide
Nov 21, 2001
Columbia Pictures
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Cast
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Barbra Streisand
Fanny Brice -
Omar Sharif
Nick Arnstein -
Kay Medford
Rose Brice -
Anne Francis
Georgia James -
Walter Pidgeon
Florenz Ziegfeld -
Lee Allen
Eddie Ryan -
Mae Questel
Mrs. Strakosh -
Gerald Mohr
Branca -
Frank Faylen
Keeney -
Mittie Lawrence
Emma -
Gertrude Flynn
Mrs. O'Malley -
Penny Santon
Mrs. Meeker -
John Harmon
Company Manager -
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Raymond Guth
Buffalo wrangler -
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All Critics (41) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (5) | DVD (16)
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.
This extended Streisand Special has done absolutely nothing to correct the flaws in the Broadway original.
Top CriticBarbra Streisand in her Hollywood debut makes a marked impact.
Well worth watching, even if most later Streisand movies aren't.
Top CriticIt is impossible to praise Miss Streisand too highly; hard to find much to praise about the rest of the film.
The fun is there whenever Streisand is, and that could be reason enough for reacquainting yourself with Funny Girl.
While the film has a few flaws that stop it from being as great as it could be, this is an excellent release of the classic musical that is a must-own for fans.
Dazzling musical romance is long but entertaining.
A fine movie musical and a nice reminder of the time when Streisand was a talent rather than a 'phenomenon'.
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.
One of the all-time great film musicals with dazzling Streisand.
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.
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.
Audience Reviews for Funny Girl
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- Fanny Brice: Hello, gorgeous.
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- Fanny Brice: Ziegfeld is waiting for me. For me! You see, you were wrong, Mrs. Strakosh.
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- Fanny Brice: Hello, gorgeous!
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Before seeing this, I wrote it off as something old-timey for Broadway fans that plays all too well in the Borscht Belt, but it's not without its charms. A cliched story of a rise to fame, sure, and full of music that I don't really like, and a bit on the long side - there's a serious lull late in the second hour - but you shouldn't ignore the fact that William Wyler helmed this film. It's well-shot and funny and inspiring, on the whole, and a justifiable classic that's worth seeing once.