In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
Direction
Streisand fought Hollywood for 15 years to make this—first woman to win Best Director at Golden Globes.
Score
Michel Legrand's songs that characters SING THEIR INNER THOUGHTS like a feverish internal monologue.
Acting
Mandy Patinkin's beard game and tortured masculinity—he's doing SO much.
Director
Barbra Streisand
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Isaac Bashevis Singer hated it so much he wrote a scathing New York Times essay calling Streisand 'entirely wrong for the part'—she kept the rights anyway.
The 'no men allowed' song 'Tomorrow Night' became an accidental lesbian anthem—Streisand performing masculinity while surrounded by actual men created layers even she didn't anticipate.
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