Up the Sandbox (1972)

Directors

Irvin Kershner

Cast

Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Ariane Heller, Jane Hoffman

The story

Margaret Reynolds is a young wife and mother of two living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with her husband, Paul, a Columbia University history professor. Margaret is bored with her bourgeois day-to-day life and neglected by Paul, who is consumed by his work. She soon discovers that she is pregnant again and initially does not tell her husband, and instead finds refuge in her outrageous fantasies: being sexually pursued by a Central American dictator modeled on Fidel Castro, imagining confrontations with her husband and mother, going on an anthropological visit to an African tribe that promises a ritual of pain-free childbirth, and…

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