G | 2h 9min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 17 June 1970 | Color, ws
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Stars: Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart, Larry Blyden, Simon Oakland, Jack Nicholson.
Howard Jeffrey ... choreographer
Watched online, good print.
8 songs in the Soundtracks, no performers. 2 big hits from this: the title song and Come Back to Me; YM gets to sing both.
My rating may be inflated by having watched 2 horrid films immediately before this. Rated 6 on 2016-12-23, I certainly don't remember this as though it was just over 2 years ago.
This has a lot of charm, with BS as a weak-willed 22 yo who wants to quit smoking for her fiance's potential job. In the first session, the doctor YM accidentally regresses her to a past life. I don't remember what she thinks is going on by the 3rd+ session, but he continues to explore without her knowledge. Supposedly if she knew, she would skew the results.
The songs manage to be about the story.
This was a B'way show '65-6.
The dvd is at least $15 right now, OOP.
Paramount, dir. Minnelli; 7+
