Up The Sandbox
| Up the Sandbox | |
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VHS cover artwork, circa. 1980s
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| Directed by | Irvin Kershner |
| Produced by |
Robert Chartoff Irwin Winkler |
| Written by |
Anne Roiphe (novel) Paul Zindel |
| Starring |
Barbra Streisand David Selby |
| Music by | Billy Goldenberg |
| Cinematography | Gordon Willis |
| Edited by | Robert Lawrence |
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Barwood Films
First Artists |
| Distributed by | National General Pictures |
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Running time
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97 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3,500,000 (US/ Canada rentals) |
Up the Sandbox is a 1972 American comedy-drama film directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Barbra Streisand.
Paul Zindel's screenplay, based on the novel by Anne Roiphe, focuses on Margaret Reynolds, a bored young New York City wife and mother who slips into increasingly bizarre fantasies.
The cast includes David Selby, Paul Benedict, George S. Irving, Conrad Bain, Isabel Sanford, Lois Smith, and in her film debut.
Margaret Reynolds, a young wife and mother, severely bored with her day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband (David Selby), slowly slips into depression, finding refuge in her outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into her apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
Director Irvin Kershner reportedly told Barbra Streisand's biographer, James Spada, that he was originally unhappy with the script, but also that he was advised not to express his dissatisfaction to Streisand. Several days into filming, when Streisand went to Kershner and asked him why they were having so much trouble, he told her that they had started shooting with a weak script. Kershner said, "Your people warned me not to tell you." To that, Streisand said, laughing as she did, "That's ridiculous! If a script isn't good enough, let's work to improve it."
Kershner actually took his crew on location to remote East Africa, but he had originally planned to have them shoot in a backlot at MGM. When Streisand convinced him it would be better for the film to shoot on location, he agreed and so convinced the team of producers, Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler. Kershner used Samburu tribesmen as extras, portraying the fabled Masai tribe.
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