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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1972 DVD Release: 07/01/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 38 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Fantasy, Psychological Drama

Up The Sandbox is a complex and difficult film, and it is ambiguous on many points, particularly on whether the protagonist Margaret Reynolds (Barbara Streisand) is a women's liberationist, a closet lesbian, or a masochist. Based on the novel by Anne Richardson Rolphe, it follows Margaret's attempts to tell her husband that she is pregnant with yet another child. The everyday events of her life are punctuated by numerous and complex fantasy sequences which reveal her fears and her desires. It is clear that she is afraid that she and her husband Paul (David Selby) are growing apart -- and that he may be having an affair. Despite the increasingly elaborate and frantic nature of her fantasies, her disclosure, when she finally makes it, has happy results. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Barbra Streisand - Margaret Reynolds
David Selby - Paul Reynolds
Jane Hoffman - Mrs. Yussim
John C. Becher - Mr. Yussim
Jacobo Morales - Fidel Castro

Irvin Kershner's 1972 drama Up the Sandbox comes to DVD from Warner Home Video as part of =The Streisand Collection. The film is presented in a widescreen transfer with English or French soundtracks in Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono. Subtitles are available in English, Spanish, and French. Special features include feature-length commentary from Barbra Streisand and Irvin Kershner, along with a vintage 1972 making-of documentary called "The Moviemakers." ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide