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The Mirror Has Two Faces

The Mirror Has Two Faces
Mirror has two faces poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
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
Starring
Music by Marvin Hamlisch
Cinematography Dante Spinotti
Andrzej Bartkowiak
Edited by Jeff Werner
Production
company
Phoenix Pictures
Arnon Milchan Productions
Barwood Films
Distributed by TriStar Pictures
Release date
  • November 15, 1996 (1996-11-15)
Running time
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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