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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, Keep Case, English, Subtitled, Spanish, French, Dubbed & Subtitled
Rose Morgan (Barbara Streisand), who still lives with her mother (Laura Bacall), is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life, Gregory Larkin (Jeff Bridges), a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect. They're two people with almost nothing in common, but Fate--in the form of a personal ad and a meddling sister--brings them together. And without physical attraction to complicate matters, Rose and Greg become best friends and soon agree to an unconventional marriage built on intellectual passion instead of sexual heat. But when two people meet, marry, and try to remain celibate and then fall in love--they realize they are courting chaos. The Mirror Has Two Faces explores our modern myths of sex and beauty with a brilliant combination of humor and poignancy that makes it "the year's best romantic comedy."
"...entertaining and attractively cast, with Bacall terrific..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"Two thumbs up!" Siskel & Ebert
"A funny, joyful romantic comedy." ABC Radio
"...crowd-pleasing comedy and romance..." BoxOffice Magazine
Editor's Note
Based on Andre Cayatte's 1958 film LE MIROIR A DEUX FACES, THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES finds Barbra Streisand directing her third motion picture, casting herself in the lead as Rose Morgan and Jeff Bridges as Professor Gregory Larkin, her foil. Morgan and Larkin, two cerebral Columbia professors, commit to a perfectly sensible but passionless paper marriage based on their intellectual common ground. The earth moves, however, when Rose redesigns her look in order to invoke the hots in her spouse and bolster her sagging self-esteem. This feel-good romance finds Streisand a little older but still the eager ingenue, ready to blush at her suitor's chivalrous blunders or bristle at her crabby mother (Lauren Bacall). Like SABRINA, a film almost 40 years older, MIRROR focuses on a woman's transformation from dusty house-mouse to glamorous cosmopolitan citizen, which only serves to confuse the man instead of creating respect or admiration. Jeff Bridges's charming performance is endearing, and Streisand and Bryan Adams's love ballad, "I Finally Found Someone," sets the mood for a very romantic film.
| Features | Scene Selection | | Interactive Menus | | Widescreen And Full Screen Formats | | Spanish Audio | | Spanish Subtitles | | Korean Subtitles | | English 5.1 Surround Dolby Digital | | English 2-Channel Dolby Surround | | French Audio |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 12/21/2004 |
| Running Time: 127 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1996 | | Catalog ID: 82529 | | UPC: 00043396825291 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: Korean, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1997) | | | Marvin Hamlisch, et al., Nominee, Best Music, Song ("I've Finally Found Someone") | | | Lauren Bacall, Nominee, Best Supporting Actress | |
British Academy Awards (1997) | | | Lauren Bacall, Nominee, Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role | |
Golden Globe (1997) |  | Lauren Bacall, Winner, Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role In A Motion Picture | | | Marvin Hamlisch, Nominee, Best Original Score For A Motion Picture | | | Marvin Hamlisch, et al., Nominee, Best Original Song For A Motion Picture ("I've Finally Found Someone" | | | Barbra Streisand, Nominee, Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture-Comedy/Musical |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"...[The film delivers] a number of laughs, deep-dish luxury on the production side and an engagingly enthusiastic performance from Bridges..." 11/11/1996Chicago Sun-Times
"...It's rare to find a film that deals intelligently with issues of sex and love....It's rare, too, to find such verbal characters in a movie, and listening to them talk is one of the pleasures of THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES..." 11/15/1996 p.37 |
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