YENTL directed by Barbra Streisand
Screenplay by Jack Rosenthal and Barbra Streisand
The Jews have a word for what it took to make this movie: chutzpah. Barbra Streisandthe producer, director, co-writer and star of Yentlspent 15 years turning Isaac Bashevis Singer's 20-page story Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy into a 2-hr. 15-min. musical extravaganza. At 41, she dares to impersonate a Lithuanian girleen. She has twisted Singer's storyof a studious imp who dresses up as a boy and contrives to marry her best friend's fianceeinto a moral tale about three victims of circumstance and prejudice....