Yentl
Summary:
Barbra Streisand's directorial debut, Yentl, is a musical adaptation of a story by the beloved Jewish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. Yentl (Streisand) is a young woman who wants nothing more than to study religious scripture. She is denied that possibility because she is a woman. She moves, passes herself off as a male named Anshel, and then begins her studies. She becom... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Barbra Streisand - (Yentl/Anshel)
Mandy Patinkin - (Avigdor)
Amy Irving - (Hadass)
Nehemiah Persoff - (Papa)
Steven Hill - (Reb Alter Vishkower)
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Review:
Barbra Streisand's first directorial effort, Yentl, was met with wildly divergent reviews, with some viewing it as a deeply moving work of art and others deriding it as a ridiculous vanity production that played fast and loose with the Isaac Bashevis Singer story upon which it is based. There's plenty of evidence for both points of view. D... Continue >>
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