Up the Sandbox

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Up The Sandbox
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Directed by	Irvin Kershner
Written by	Anne Richardson Roiphe (novel) Paul Zindel
Starring	Barbra Streisand David Selby
Music by	Billy Goldenberg
Cinematography	Gordon Willis
Editing by	Robert Lawrence
Release date(s)	21 December 1972
Running time	97 min
Country	United States
Language	English
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Up The Sandbox is a 1972 American comedy film directed by Irvin Kershner.

Paul Zindel's screenplay, based on the novel by Anne Richardson Roiphe, focuses on Margaret Reynolds, a young New York City wife and mother who, neglected by her husband and bored with her daily existence, slips into increasingly bizarre fantasies that involve, among other things, armed robbery, tribal fertility music, and a terrorist plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty.

The cast includes Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Paul Benedict, George S. Irving, Conrad Bain, Isabel Sanford, Lois Smith, and Stockard Channing in her film debut.

Critics in general were impressed by Streisand's performance but thought the film itself was a confusing mess. Audiences avoided it in droves, and it proved to be one of her lowest-grossing films ever.