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Up the Sandbox is a american film of genre Drama directed by Irvin Kershner released in USA on 21 december 1972 with Barbra Streisand
Up the Sandbox (1972)
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Add to a movie listUp the Sandbox is a 1972 American drama/comedy film directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Barbra Streisand.
Paul Zindel's screenplay, based on the novel by Anne Roiphe, focuses on Margaret Reynolds, a bored young New York City wife and mother who slips into increasingly bizarre fantasies.
The cast includes David Selby, Paul Benedict, George S. Irving, Conrad Bain, Isabel Sanford, Lois Smith, and Stockard Channing in her film debut.
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Margaret Reynolds, a young wife and mother, severely bored with her day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, slowly slips into depression, finding refuge in her outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into her 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.Actors
Barbra Streisand
(Margaret Reynolds)
David Selby
(Paul Reynolds)
Jacobo Morales
(Fidel Castro)
Conrad Bain
(Dr. Gordon)
Paul Benedict
(Dr. Beineke)
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