Yentl (Director's Extended Edition) (2-DVD) PG

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DVD Details

  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: PG
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 13 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 3, 2009
  • Originally Released: 1983
  • Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)

Performers, Cast and Crew:

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Directed by
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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1983 - Best Original Song Score and Adaptation: Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman & Michel Legrand

Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 7,884
Rating: C -- Oy! Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Sep 23, 2008
Rating: 3/5 -- Streisand knows her way in front of and behind the camera, but does she have to hog it all? Why cast the magnificent Mandy Patinkin and not let him sing?
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Mar 14, 2004
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Like all great fables, it grows out of a particular time and place, but it takes its strength from universal sorts of feelings. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 24, 2004
Rating: 5/5 -- "perhaps Streisand's finest hour, on all fronts"
Kalamazoo Gazette
Jul 29, 2002
Rating: B -- Directed by and starring Streisant, this is a charming gender-bending fable, too bad the music is so undistinguished. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Jul 13, 2005
Rating: 2/4 -- While the movie is on target in terms of noble intent, so much about Yentl is self defeating, and the legendary ego of Streisand can safely be deemed the culprit. Full Review
Bangitout.com
Oct 27, 2009
Rating: C- -- The resolution is completely unbelievable. Full Review
rachelsreviews.net
Apr 12, 2019

Product Description:

Barbra Streisand cowrote, produced, and directed as well as starred in this popular motion picture, based on a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story follows the adventures of Yentl, a courageous young woman growing up in Eastern Europe at the turn of the 20th century. Inspired by her father's teaching to become a Talmudic scholar--despite the religious restrictions against her doing so--she manages to make her dreams come true by disguising herself as a boy and entering an orthodox Jewish school. But her masquerade causes big problems when she falls in love with her fellow scholar Avigdor (Mandy Patinkin)...and his fiancée (Amy Irving, in an Oscar-nominated performance) falls in love with her. In an interesting twist on the musical genre, Streisand performs each song as an interior soliloquy, as if she were speaking to herself. This lends the film an air of analysis and introspection, two notions not commonly found in a musical but which would later be employed to great effect in movies such as VELVET GOLDMINE. Streisand made her debut as a feature-film director with YENTL, which was nominated for five Academy Awards.

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  • UPC: 883904117766
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