Funny Girl

Name: Funny Girl
Released: 1968-9-20
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon

Funny Girl

G
2h 35m
1968

94%

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Barbra Streisand gives an Oscar®-winning performance as Fanny Brice, the greatest female comedian of her generation. Discovered at Keeney's Music Hall, Fanny is soon signed by producer Florenz Ziegfeld (Walter Pigeon) to appear in his Follies. As her fame grows, so does her yearning for Nicky Arnstein (Omar Sharif), a handsome gambler. Despite their differences, Arnstein becomes the great love of Fanny's life as they marry and have a child. But as her career flourishes, Nicky's worsens, until he's imprisoned for embezzlement. Although Fanny refuses to divorce him, the two eventually realize their marriage cannot work and Nicky walks out of her life forever.

Director:

William Wyler, Herbert Ross

Producer:

Ray Stark

Writer:

Isobel Lennart

Cast:

Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

94%

Critics Consensus: Barbara Streisand elevates this otherwise rote melodramatic musical with her ultra-memorable star turn as Fanny Brice.

Reviews

Gone With The Twins

Mike Massie

Though the premise isn’t particularly original or memorable, Streisand’s turn is incredibly fitting.

[Barbra Streisand] is the best of all possible reasons to see the movie version of the musical. In short, she is sublime -- which saves the film as a whole from suffocating under its own glossy, ill-conceived hugeness.

In Barbra Streisand Funny Girl thumps down an ace.

It's hard to think of Funny Girl, in fact, apart from Barbra Streisand. She is the life force. Director William Wyler simply drapes the opulent show around her.

When she is singing--in a marvelous scene on roller skates--when she throws a line away, or shrugs, or looks funny or sad, she has a power, gentleness and intensity that rather knocks all the props and sets and camera angles on their ear.

January 9, 2018

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