Characters & Themes
Up the Sandbox (1972) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1972 · 97 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Irvin Kershner
- Starring
- Carl Gottlieb, Lois Smith, Barbra Streisand, Stockard Channing, Sully Boyar, Paul Benedict
Bored with life in New York City and ignored by her husband, Barbra, a wife, slips into fantasies: her mother breaking into their apartment, an explorer’s fertility‑music demo that triggers transformations, and joining terrorists planning to plant bombs at Liberty. The film asks whether she’s up to a trap, a revolution, a trek or something wonderful.
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