The Mirror Has Two Faces

Saturday night, Sharon and I watched The Mirror has Two Faces. Sharon read Barbara Streisand's biography My Name is Barbra last year and we have been working our way through a number of Streisand's films. We watched A Star is Born in December, The Way We Were in January, Funny Girl and What's Up, Doc? in March and Yentel in May.

The Mirror Has Two Faces is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Barbra Streisand. The screenplay by Richard LaGravenese is loosely based on the 1958 French film Le Miroir à deux faces written by André Cayatte and Gérard Oury. The film stars Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan, George Segal, Mimi Rogers, Brenda Vaccaro, and Lauren Bacall.

The story focuses on a shy, middle-aged professor who enters into a platonic relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague. Streisand plays Rose, a brilliant literature professor yearning for a meaningful connection. Disillusioned by societal emphasis on appearances, she longs for someone who values her for her mind. Bridges is Gregory, a charming mathematics professor scarred by superficial relationships.

Lauren Bacall's performance garnered widespread critical acclaim. It earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. In addition, Bacall was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first in her then-50-plus-year career.

Streisand, Marvin Hamlisch, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, and Bryan Adams composed the film's theme song, "I Finally Found Someone". Streisand sang it on the soundtrack with Adams. The theme song was nominated for the Best Song Oscar.

I continue to be impressed by Streisand's performances. She is very good. Nevertheless, I don't generally don't recommend the movie unless you are working your way through her movies like we are...