A noble attempt, but a bust. Barbra Streisand as early 70s Walter Mitty meets Patty Hearst-as-Tania. Other than the costumes and NYC location photography that which dates this picture most is that a hero could ever fantasize about getting an abortion or blowing up the Statue of Liberty and not get some sort of commupance. There are a few scenes in this movie that are just fantastic (the family dinner in NJ, for example) and if you are interested in the Women’s Lib movement it may be worth checking out. But there is a lot of dreck to wade through — this felt a lot longer than 97 minutes.
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Jordan Hoffman is a New York-based writer and film critic working for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Thrillist, Times of Israel, NY Daily News and elsewhere.
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