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Schola
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 Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:42 am Post subject: The Mirror Has Two Faces |
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I caught this movie again the other night and realised that its structure would fit perfectly into a Romance novel. Barbra Streisand and Jeff Daniels are probably just not who we tend to picture when we envision heroes and heroines.  I found it to be a nice movie with a lot of "old Hollywood" charm.
However . . . if I were reading a novelisation and didn't know that Barbra was playing the heroine, I would not picture her in the role at all. I know it's her movie, but she felt a little like a miscast to me.
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LeeB.
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Location: Seattle, WA
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Gosh, I haven't thought about that movie in ages. I went to see it when it first came out. And yeah, not a typical Babs role, so the movie suffers.
Same thing happened when she decided to star in and direct The Prince of Tides. That was such a wonderful book but turned out to be an awful movie.
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