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The Mirror Has Two Faces

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Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.

Status: Released

Released Date: 1996-11-15

Runtime: 126 mins

Director: Barbra Streisand

Spoken language: English

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Original title: The Mirror Has Two Faces

Production Companies: TriStar Pictures, Phoenix Pictures, Arnon Milchan Productions, Barwood Films

Production Countries: United States of America

Cast

Barbra Streisand

Jeff Bridges

Pierce Brosnan

Lauren Bacall

Mimi Rogers

George Segal

Brenda Vaccaro

Austin Pendleton

Elle Macpherson

Ali Marsh

Leslie Stefanson

Taina Elg

Lucy Avery Brooks

Amber Smith

Reviews

Geronimo1967

It takes it's time to get going this, but once we've met the characters and it gets into it's swing, its quite an amiable showcase for the star. "Gregory" (Jeff Bridges) is a rather dry university professor who's looking for a distinctly platonic form of female companionship. He places an add and amongst the responses is one from "Rose" (Barbra Streisand). Thing is, she didn't volunteer for this - her recently married sister "Claire" (Mimi Rogers) nominated her... Anyway, the two meet and rather surprisingly they click. A few rather rushed escapades later and it's clear that the two are falling in love - despite the obvious scepticism of her mother "Hannah" (Lauren Bacall) - and that "Rose" is now ready to takes things to a next level that "Gregory" is scared silly of... Meantime, her sister and husband "Alex" (Pierce Brosnan), upon whom "Rose" has always had a bit of a crush, are having difficulties and with "Gregory" playing his hand particularly badly, well - might "Rose" stray? The last forty minutes or so are well paced with some pithy dialogue and as "Rose" finds her true personality the characterisations begin to come alive a little better. There are a couple of fun scenes with the all too sparingly used Bacall and Streisand sabre-rattling and the rest of it, well I reckon there are some clear parallels with "What's Up Doc?" (1972) as the story heads to an increasingly predicable denouement. It's quite watchable, but you'll probably never remember it or the duet with Bryan Adams at the end.

2023-12-25

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