Yentl is all about, who else? Miss Streisand. But her vast talents turn a gender-bending fable into a winner.
Yentl (1983)
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Reviews Counted: 13
Fresh: 10
Rotten:3
Average Rating: 6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 14 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: Barbra Streisand cowrote, produced, and directed as well as starred in this popular motion picture, based on a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story follows the adventures of Yentl, a... Barbra Streisand cowrote, produced, and directed as well as starred in this popular motion picture, based on a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story follows the adventures of Yentl, a courageous young woman growing up in Eastern Europe at the turn of the 20th century. Inspired by her father's teaching to become a Talmudic scholar--despite the religious restrictions against her doing so--she manages to make her dreams come true by disguising herself as a boy and entering an orthodox Jewish school. But her masquerade causes big problems when she falls in love with her fellow scholar Avigdor (Mandy Patinkin)...and his fiancée (Amy Irving, in an Oscar-nominated performance) falls in love with her. In an interesting twist on the musical genre, Streisand performs each song as an interior soliloquy, as if she were speaking to herself. This lends the film an air of analysis and introspection, two notions not commonly found in a musical but which would later be employed to great effect in movies such as VELVET GOLDMINE. Streisand made her debut as a feature-film director with YENTL, which was nominated for five Academy Awards. [More]
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Nehemiah Persoff, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Nehemiah Persoff, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving
Director: Barbra Streisand
Director: Barbra Streisand
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Reviews for Yentl
Streisand knows her way in front of and behind the camera, but does she have to hog it all? Why cast the magnificent Mandy Patinkin and not let him sing?
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More than a quarter century after it earned an Oscar for its score, "Yentl" is reaching the deluxe DVD market -- which is occasion enough for its star, co-writer, and director,... More...
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