The Mirror Has Two Faces
Short description
Two professors at Columbia University, Rose Morgan and Gregory Larkin, share a problem in their personal lives. Rose teaches literature, lives with her domineering mother and longs for the passion she reads about but has never experienced. Gregory, a mathematician, has been hurt by romantic entanglements and has decided that physical intimacy is what ruins relationships. He proposes a marriage built only on friendship, intellectual companionship and respect, and Rose, tired of her situation at home, agrees to the arrangement. The two soon find that feelings do not follow the terms they set, and the household they expected to keep tidy becomes far more complicated.
Barbra Streisand directed and stars as Rose, working from a screenplay by Richard LaGravenese. The film is her third feature as director, following Yentl and The Prince of the Tides, and she produced it with Arnon Milchan through Barwood Films and Phoenix Pictures. Jeff Bridges plays Gregory, with Pierce Brosnan, Lauren Bacall, Mimi Rogers and George Segal in supporting roles. It is a remake of the 1958 French film The Mirror Has Two Faces.
The production carried a budget of about 42 million dollars and returned roughly 41 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.6 from more than twenty-one thousand votes, and on TMDB 6.7 from a few hundred, while critics rated it 5.9 from thirty-five reviews, somewhat below the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Dudley Moore (1935-2002) was initially cast in the role of Henry, which was eventually played by George Segal. However, Barbra Streisand fired Moore because he couldn't memorize his lines. These were the first signs of progressive supranuclear palsy—a neurodegenerative disease that would ultimately take the actor's life. Ironically, in the erotic melodrama "10" (Blake Edwards, 1979), it was the opposite. Moore played the role originally intended for Segal.
- Due to creative differences with Barbra Streisand, cinematographer Dante Spinotti left the project. He was replaced by Andrzej Bartkowiak.
- While sorting through Greg's belongings, Barbra Streisand's character places a photograph of her parents on a shelf. The picture actually depicts the actress's father and Lauren Bacall (1924-2014), who played her mother in the film.
- The film is based on André Cayatte's drama "Purple Noon" (1958), but Barbra Streisand made significant changes to it. Her film does not mention plastic surgery, and unlike the French film, the main characters are people of extraordinary intellectual ability.
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