Up the Sandbox

Year: 1972

Runtime: 97 mins

Language: English

Director: Irvin Kershner

DramaComedy

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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