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Funny Girl (1968)
Funny Girl (1968)
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Critic Consensus: Barbara Streisand elevates this otherwise rote melodramatic musical with her ultra-memorable star turn as Fanny Brice.
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Cast
as Fanny Brice
as Nicky Arnstein
as Rose Brice
as Florenz Ziegfeld
as Georgia James
as Eddie Ryan
as Mrs. Strakosh
as Branca
as Keeney
as Emma
as Mrs. O'Malley
as Mrs. Meeker
as Company Manager
as Ziegfeld Girl
as Ziegfeld Girl
as Ziegfeld Girl
as Ziegfeld Girl
as Buffalo wrangler
as Ziegfeld Girl
as Ziegfeld Girl
as Ziegfeld Girl
as Ziegfeld Girl
Critic Reviews for Funny Girl
All Critics (40) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (3) | DVD (9)
Streisand is stunning, but the film is a trial, particularly when the music disappears somewhere around the 90-minute mark and all that's left is leaden melodrama.
This extended Streisand Special has done absolutely nothing to correct the flaws in the Broadway original.
Barbra Streisand in her Hollywood debut makes a marked impact.
Well worth watching, even if most later Streisand movies aren't.
It is impossible to praise Miss Streisand too highly; hard to find much to praise about the rest of the film.
The fun is there whenever Streisand is, and that could be reason enough for reacquainting yourself with Funny Girl.
Audience Reviews for Funny Girl
Epic freaking musical about a singing comedienne wedging her way into her big break. The beginning is a bit slow, and I tired of Fanny's repetitive self-deprecation about her lack of traditional beauty, but Barbra Streisand is sassy and ballsy, and my word, is Omar Sharif not the most dashing and earnest paramour? He says "I love you" so shyly yet tenderly! Nicky's love and admiration are so soaring, and that's what makes the main relationship conflict of Fanny outgrowing Nicky and the show-stopping number "My Man" all the more tragic in a mere mortals sort of way.
Super Reviewer
Despite a tight and coherent film score, good singing, and a pleasantly avuncular performance by Pidgeon, "Funny Girl" is a real snoozefest. The only thing you'll find funny about this film is that you can't get your ticket refunded after you fall asleep in the middle of it.
Super Reviewer
I was surprised at how relevant this story still is - take a look in the news lately and see how many columnists are talking about our changing work world, the one in which "feminine" skills are much more in demand and as a result, men have begun to feel insecure and less confident when they aren't the provider they've been socialized to be. Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif) turns increasingly to gambling in his attempt to keep up with his love (Barbra Streisand)'s success. I found his story to be almost the more interesting, intermittently updated though it was. Before seeing this, I wrote it off as something old-timey for Broadway fans that plays all too well in the Borscht Belt, but it's not without its charms. A cliched story of a rise to fame, sure, and full of music that I don't really like, and a bit on the long side - there's a serious lull late in the second hour - but you shouldn't ignore the fact that William Wyler helmed this film. It's well-shot and funny and inspiring, on the whole, and a justifiable classic that's worth seeing once.
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Funny Girl Quotes
| Fanny Brice: | Hello, gorgeous. |
| Fanny Brice: | Ziegfeld is waiting for me... you were wrong, Mrs. Strakosh. |
| Fanny Brice: | Ziegfeld is waiting for me. For me! You see, you were wrong, Mrs. Strakosh. |
| Fanny Brice: | Hello, gorgeous! |
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