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Funny Girl

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Funny Girl (1968)

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Reviews Counted:25

Fresh:10

Rotten:15

Average Rating:4.2/10

Consensus: Barbara Streisand elevates this otherwise rote melodramatic musical with her ultra-memorable star turn as Fanny Brice.

Runtime: 2 hrs 49 mins

Genre: Musical & Performing Arts

Synopsis: In FUNNY GIRL, the highly fictionalized musical biopic, Barbara Streisand makes her film debut in a reprisal of her Broadway role as Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice. Brice, a poor Jewish girl from New... In FUNNY GIRL, the highly fictionalized musical biopic, Barbara Streisand makes her film debut in a reprisal of her Broadway role as Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice. Brice, a poor Jewish girl from New York's Lower East Side, rose to fame and won audience's hearts everywhere with her comic antics and powerful singing. Unfortunately, she had far less success in her personal life, and the film focuses on her doomed romance with her first husband, gambler Nicky Arnstein. [More]

Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis

Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Mae Questel, Gerald Mohr, Frank Faylen

Director: William Wyler

Director: William Wyler
Producer: Ray Stark
Screenwriter: Isobel Lennart
Composer: Jule Styne, Robert Merrill

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This may be the only film biography in which the fledgling lead, Barbra Streisand, eclipses the star she’s portraying.

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