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A young wife and mother, bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the 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. Written by
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Dust Mop Of The Year!
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Margaret Reynolds:
If this is what being a mother is like, I turn in my ovaries!
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Crazy Credits
Most of the opening titles are shown over a close-up shot of an infant's buttocks.
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Soundtracks
"When you're in love it's the loveliest night of the year"
(aka "The Merry-Go-Round Waltz" (uncredited)
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Juventino Rosas
Heard at the merry-go-round
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Probably the best Barbra Streisand movie nobody has ever seen, director Irvin Kershner's expose of urban angst is funny and sad but ultimately uplifting. Streisand plays a NYC housewife, sick to death of her disengaged husband, impossible mother, and overall lack of confidence. She finds release in fantasies: one moment she's frolicking with a very surprising Fidel Castro and the next she's helping to blow up the Statue of Liberty. Streisand has rarely been better. Director Kershner gets a very toned down performance out of her. David Selby, as the husband, is duly caddish and Paul Benedict, Conrad Bain and Isabel Sanford have small roles. Benedict is particularly funny as an especially inept great white hunter!