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Yentl was successful at the box office, opening at number 5 at the US box office upon its limited-release weekend and stayed in the top 10 for 9 weeks, peaking at number three, in its third week. The film went on to gross more than $40,218,899 at the US and Canadian box office on a budget of $12 million, and was amongst the top 20 highest-grossing films of the year at the box office.
Yentl: Directed by Barbra Streisand. With Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving, Nehemiah Persoff. A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.
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- Drama, Musical, Romance
- Barbra Streisand
- 1984-01-06
But the middle 100 minutes of the movie are charming and moving and surprisingly interesting. A lot of the charm comes from the cheerful high energy of the actors, not only Streisand (who gives her best performance) but also Mandy Patinkin, as her long-suffering roommate, and Amy Irving, as the girl Patinkin loves and Streisand marries.
Nov 17, 2023 · Here at Hey Alma, we published a style retrospective celebrating her iconic fashion over the decades. And tomorrow, Nov. 18, her gender-bending masterpiece film “Yentl” turns 40. While discussing Babs in depth in our Hey Alma office Slack, as you do, the entire team realized something shocking: None of us had ever actually seen “Yentl.”.
Feb 13, 2019 · Yentl (Barbra Streisand, 1983) The most instantly striking aspect of Barbra Streisand’s Yentl, a studio-financed hit that made back more than three times its budget, is its cultural specificity. Forthrightly Jewish, unabashedly feminist, and more than a little queer, this unorthodox musical, which Streisand directed, produced, co-wrote, and ...
Yentl. PG Released Dec 9, 1983 2h 14m Musical CTA List. 69% Tomatometer 78 Reviews 75% Popcornmeter 5,000+ Ratings. Rebbe Mendel is a single father who teaches the Talmud, a sacred text of Judaism ...
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- Musical
- PG
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Rebbe Mendel is a single father who teaches the Talmud, a sacred text of Judaism, to the boys of his small Polish town. Behind closed doors, he also instructs his daughter, Yentl, despite the fact that girls are forbidden to study religious scripture. When Yentl's father dies, she still has a strong desire to learn about her faith -- so she disguises herself as a male, enrolls in a religious ...
