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Yentl was released on home video in August 1984 on CBS/Fox Video (under license from MGM/UA Home Entertainment Group, Inc.). Another VHS was released by MGM/UA Home Video in 1989. It was released on DVD by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (under 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment) on February 3, 2009 as a two-disc "Director's Extended Cut" in the ...
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.
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Yentl Mendel is a woman living in an Ashkenazi shtetl named Pechev in Poland in 1904. Yentl's father, Rebbe Mendel (Nehemiah Persoff), secretly instructs her in the Talmuddespite the proscription of such study by women according to the custom of her community. Yentl refuses to be married off to a man. After the death of her father, Yentl decides to...
Nehemiah Persoffas Rebbe MendelThe production of Barbra Streisand's film Yentl was a long and arduous process that delayed the project for over a decade.(citation needed) After reading Isaac Bashevis Singer's story "Yentl: The Yeshiva Boy" in 1968, Streisand sought to make it her next film after her completion of Funny Girl. The screen rights were gained in 1969, with Streisand ...
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 ...
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 65% of 17 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.3/10. Metacritic gave the movie a score of 68 based on 11 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". It's featured on the Top Ten Films of 1983 by National Board of Review.(citation needed) Roger Ebert gave the film three a...
Yentl won an Academy Award in 1984 for Best Adaptation Score, the award going to Michel Legrand (music), Alan Bergman (lyrics), and Marilyn Bergman (lyrics). Amy Irving was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the film was also nominated for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (Roy Walker, Leslie Tomkins, Tessa Davies). Ba...
Yentl begins with the same premise as Singer's original story. Streisand's character is a young woman growing up in an oppressive society that will not let her pursue her religious education. She is told she must have the "soul of a man" because of her desire to learn. Her talent, curiosity and ambition are considered strictly masculine by her soci...
Yentl at the Internet Movie DatabaseYentl at the TCM Movie DatabaseTemplate:AFI filmYentl at Box Office MojoFeb 27, 2003 · Terry Wells. Props. Jeff Werner. Post-Production Associate. Alan Whibley. Special Effects. Barbara Streisand stars in and directs Yentl (1983) based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's story of a Jewish girl who passes as a boy to study the Torah. Intro Aired: Aug 2018.
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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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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 ...
