The four seasons are characters, playing supporting roles with enthusiasm and subtlety. Perfectly cast and beautifully executed, the film flows through the streets, parks, and campuses of New York City like a dance. This movie is a story of finding who you are, settling, and not settling for less than the who-you-are you found deserves. It's a different stripe of love story.ĭelightful story of learning who you are and never settling for less. Between Morgan's designing sister and Vaccaro they come up with a scheme that will alter both Larkin and Morgan's lives perhaps forever.īacall's, Bridge's, Streisand's and Vaccaro's performances are all stellar. Showing her daughter a kind of love she'd never felt from her before.īrenda Vaccaro plays Streisand's best friend. As always, the actor brings her point home brilliantly with brevity. Bacall has a key point in the story that only a mother could have impact enough to deliver. So she returns home to her aging disgruntled mother (Lauren Bacall). She is shattered when Larkin won't make love to her after she's done her best to seduce him. But Rose makes a near fatal mistake in the relationship: she falls in love with Larkin. Morgan and Larkin date and agree to commit to a platonic marriage based on their intellectual common grounds, without sex. until Larkin leaves before she finishes the class which ends in a commentary about love and sex being the height of the product. Morgan's class was on relationships that are distinctly platonic. She's exactly what he's looking for because when he's engaged in a hot sexual romance with a drop dead gorgeous woman he cannot write he's so distracted by the relationship. When Larkin shows up and goes to one of her dynamic classes he becomes enthralled with her. Morgan's 'more attractive' sister, eager to pair her sister with someone who she might be compatible with, answers the ad instead, for Morgan. Streisand plays herself way down from the start to look extra frumpy, for the frumpy professor part. Larkin puts an ad in the paper for a platonic cerebral relationship with a woman whose looks don't matter. He can hardly get them to come to class without using threats. Dull science where even his back is turned as he scrawls forumlas on the black board which bore the disengaged students to death. Morgan's is humanities, student interactive and centered, alive, vibrant, and uses everyday examples to stress her points. Professor Gregory Larkin (Jeff Bridges) and Professor Rose Morgan are Columbia professors whose teaching styles couldn't be more different. Streisand (Rose Morgan) casts herself in the lead role. This movie is based upon Andre Cayatte's (1958) French film LE MIROIR A DEUX FACES. In "The Mirror Has Two Faces" Barbra Streisand directs, produces, and stars in her third tri-part motion picture. When Gregory proposes marriage, with the proviso that sex be excluded, Rose has to consider the possibilities.Streisand Directs, Produces & Stars with Jeff Bridges A friendship grows, but one without hugs or kisses. When Rose shows interest in such abstract concepts as prime numbers, the math professor is bowled over. Rose’s sister Claire, who spots the ad, urges Gregory to call Rose. Looking for something platonic, he advertises for an over-35 companion with a PhD, stressing that physical appearance is not an issue. Jeff Bridges is Gregory Larkin, a rumpled mathematics professor who’s tired of superficial relationships with young women. In this remake of a French film, Barbra Streisand plays Rose Morgan, a literature professor at Columbia University who lectures authoritatively about romance but has no romantic prospects.
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