Yentl (Director's Extended Edition) (2-DVD) PG
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 13 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 3, 2009
- Originally Released: 1983
- Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Nehemiah Persoff & Amy Irving | |
Directed by | Barbra Streisand | |
Director of Photography: | David Watkin |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1983 -
Best Original Song Score and Adaptation: Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman & Michel Legrand
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
While the movie is on target in terms of noble intent, so much about Yentl is self defeating, and the legendary ego of Streisand can safely be deemed the culprit.
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Bangitout.com
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Like all great fables, it grows out of a particular time and place, but it takes its strength from universal sorts of feelings.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3/4 --
Yentl is all about, who else? Miss Streisand. But her vast talents turn a gender-bending fable into a winner.
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What Would Toto Watch?
Rating: 4/5 --
Surprisingly powerful.
Shadows on the Wall
Rating: 5/5 --
"perhaps Streisand's finest hour, on all fronts"
Kalamazoo Gazette
Rating: B --
Directed by and starring Streisant, this is a charming gender-bending fable, too bad the music is so undistinguished.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 3/5 --
Romantic folk tale retold with music and classic Streisand.
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Common Sense Media
Product Description:
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.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 113,173
- UPC: 883904117766
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