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Zany Barbra.
Henrietta Robbins borrows money from a loan shark to finance her husband's investment in the stock market. However, when their stock plummets, she scrambles to find a way to pay the money back.
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For Pete's Sake
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Barbra Streisand Michael Sarrazin Estelle Parsons Molly Picon William Redfield Louis Zorich Heywood Hale Broun Richard Ward Ed Bakey Peter Mamakos Vivian Bonnell Joseph Maher Anne Ramsey Jack Hollander Gary Pagett Wil Albert Herb Armstrong Fred Stuthman Bella Bruck Stuart Wagstaff Joseph Hardy Vincent Schiavelli Sidney Miller Norman Marshall Martin Erlichman
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Ma chi te l'ha fatto fare?, Chi te l'ha fatto fare?, ¿Qué diablos pasa aquí?, Bei mir liegst du richtig, Ma femme est dingue, Nossa, Que Loucura!, به خاطر پیت, Csak a férjem meg ne tudja!, 바브라 내사랑, Все ради Пита, Ένα Κορίτσι που τα Κάνει Όλα, Tot ho faig per tu, Nä, dra åt skogen!, 娇妻摆乌龙
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25 Sep 1974
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25 Sep 1974
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26 Jun 1974
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"Hello? Hi. This is Henrietta Robbins, your cousin from Brooklyn. Hi, I hate to bother you here, but I'm desperate. See, the bomb blew the bus up and I need $7,000 or else I'm gonna become a cattle rustler…"
❤️🎂❤️ An Icon Turns 80 ❤️🎂❤️
Barbra Streisand's Diary of a Mad Housewife, except the spouses actually love each other.
You get:
Babs in a short wig (designed by Jon Peters, naturally). Then topped by ANOTHER wig under a hat. An apartment off of Prospect Park. Extreme 70s interior décor. Michael Sarrazin in a bathtub. William Redfield and Estelle Parsons as annoying in-laws. Richard Ward and Vivian Bonnell as unwitting partners in crime. A sharp left into screwball Belle de Jour…
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Disillusionment In Sun-Drenched 1970s American New Wave Cinema: A Watching Brief
So. You're Peter Yates. Yeah, you. You're Peter Yates and you just made one of the most critically acclaimed and dark crime films of the 1970s in the form of The Friends Of Eddie Coyle. How would YOU follow that up, new Peter Yateses?
I'm not going to presume to speak for you all, but I'm guessing that the vast majority of you wouldn't go for a Barbra Streisand comedy where she tries to cover a debt incurred by trading $3,000 on pork bellies by becoming a bomb delivery girl, a cattle rustler and a call girl. Not necessarily in that order.
That's what the original Peter Yates did.…
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psychotic shit but it’s got layers. Barbra does the sex worker to hitman to cattle driver pipeline.
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Very mediocre. The set-up of the first half was decent and actually funnier than the zany comedy scenarios that follow. Barbra popping a wheelie and riding a cow is fun but the rest of it is just too many forced scenarios that aren't funny. I was making negative comparisons to Up the Sandbox while watching, which isn't great shakes by any means but still quite superior to this.
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I can't help it. This is a fun film. It's not as good as What's Up Doc, but Streisand and Sarrazin make a cute couple and the characters make it worth watching.
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Mrs. Cherry, the sweet little old lady running a housewives prostitution ring in 1970s NYC here, was played by was the matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof? I'M SCREAMING
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Slapstick Streisand vehicle has its fair share of funny moments, and a serviceable premise — Streisand and her husband (Michael Sarrazin) need money after investing in a “sure thing” stock option — little does Sarrazin know that his wife got the money by borrowing from a mob loan shark. The rest of the film has Streisand desperately trying to pay back the money as the debt gets transferred from person to person, with the vig increasing every time. At one point, Streisand is expected to be a call girl, as well as deliver a package which happens to be a bomb. The whole thing is approached from a cartoonish standpoint, which might’ve worked better if there had been more realism…
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This is kind of wicked.
Babs plays the devoted but zany wife to a cab driver. She will stop at nothing to put her husband through school, so when her husband gets a tip on the stock market, she gets 3000 from a loan shark but tells her husband she got it from a rich uncle.
After watching two early Barbara Streisand movies, I get it Babs, is great. This was billed as a screwball comedy. The really zany stuff happens in the 2nd act with the police dog scene which is pretty funny still. I love Bab's Brooklyn accent. This is just a fun movie. Classic screwball 70's comedy filmed in NYC. -
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It has an I love Lucy Meets What’s Up Doc vibe to it . Madcap housewife Barbra style. I wish it was that funny but it tries and Barbra is always watchable.
The opening credits has Barbra singing which is always a treat.