Friday, May 12, 2023
The Mirror Has Two Faces
- Commentary: This is not even close to my favorite Streisand movie. As well, it's kind of an afterthought. I've seen it more than a few times over the years. I very likely even saw it at least once with Mom. I haven't thought of this movie in, oh, years, though. Then, suddenly, a couple of weeks ago, it was occupying some of my prominent brain real estate. I figured I could handle this by watching a stream of it somewhere or checking it out of my local library, but, alas, I have only a few streaming channels, none of them was hosting it and my library, although it has four copies, all of them are "temporarily unavailable" which means, in library-speak, they're probably all being repaired or replaced. I couldn't get it out of my mind, though, and finally looked around for a good deal on the disc. And found it.
I know, I know. For a lot of people this is Streisand schlock. I like Streisand, schlock or not, though, and I enjoy this movie, in particular, especially the appearance of Lauren Bacall and the way these two super-divas portray their on screen relationship as mother and daughter. It's wonderful to watch two screen masters spark off one another. Watching this movie always reminds me that I haven't got nearly enough representations of Lauren Bacall's work in my movie collection. I need to work on that.
Jeff Bridges holds up nicely, too, and makes the wise choice to stay out of the way of the two leading ladies as they conjure their magic.
My almost immediate thought after finishing my watching of this movie was, "That was sweet!" Immediately on its tail I thought, "Oh, wow, 'sweet', how long has it been since I thought of a movie as 'sweet', enjoyed its sweetness, or even watched a movie that I thought might be 'sweet'!?! Do I even own any other 'sweet' movies???" So, I searched through the title list to the left, over there, and realized, yeah, I not only own movies that I would class as 'sweet', I watch 'sweet' movies fairly often and enjoy them! So, I've compiled a list, which I'll add to this journal a bit later. I haven't decided, yet, whether I want to just list the movies or define why I consider them 'sweet', or, more specifically, what about them seems 'sweet' to me. I mean, I suspect, everyone has a slightly different personal definition of 'sweetness', right? What is mine, at least, what is mine for movies? Stay tuned.
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Barbra Streisand Rose Morgan-Larkin Jeff Bridges Gregory Larkin Lauren Bacall Hannah Morgan George Segal Henry Fine Mimi Rogers Claire Morgan Pierce Brosnan Alex Brenda Vaccaro Doris Austin Pendleton Barry
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 1996
Directed by Barbra Streisand.
Labels: barbra-streisand, comedy3, jeff-bridges, romance5
