The Mirror Has Two Faces
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| Directed by | Barbra Streisand |
| Produced by | Barbra Streisand Arnon Milchan |
| Screenplay by | Richard LaGravenese |
| Story by | Richard LaGravenese |
| Based on |
Le Miroir à deux faces by André Cayatte Gérard Oury |
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| Music by | Marvin Hamlisch |
| Cinematography |
Dante Spinotti Andrzej Bartkowiak |
| Edited by | Jeff Werner |
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| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
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126 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $42 million |
| Box office | $91,610,201 |
The Mirror Has Two Faces is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Barbra Streisand, who also stars. The screenplay by Richard LaGravenese is loosely based on the 1958 French film Le Miroir à deux faces written by André Cayatte and Gérard Oury, which focused on a homely woman who becomes a beauty, which creates problems in her marriage.
The film also stars Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan, George Segal, Mimi Rogers, Brenda Vaccaro and Lauren Bacall.
Streisand, Marvin Hamlisch, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, and Bryan Adams composed the film's theme song, "I Finally Found Someone"; Streisand sang it on the soundtrack with Adams.
Rose Morgan (Streisand), a shy, plain, middle-aged English literature professor at Columbia University, shares a home with her vain, overbearing mother Hannah (Bacall). When her attractive sister Claire (Rogers) starts making preparations for her third wedding to Alex (Brosnan), who used to date Rose, she begins to feel her loveless life is empty.
Gregory Larkin (Bridges), a Columbia Mathematics teacher, feels sex complicates matters between men and women, since he seems to lose all his rational perspective as soon as he is aroused. After his last girlfriend dumps him after a last one night stand before she gets married, he decides to look for a relationship based on the intellectual rather than the physical, based on a suggestion by a sex-phone service, and places an ad in a newspaper.
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