Entertainment Weekly, 11/02/2001, p.55, "...As an exercise in unintentional self-revelation, it's mesmerizing, with Streisand hammering home the comedy..."
Los Angeles Times, 08/31/2001, p.6, "...As enthralling as the day it was released in 1968. It is a superb example of Hollywood craftsmanship in which all elements have been blended to perfection with inspired artistry..."
Total Film, 03/01/2002, p.107, "...Quirky, charming and very funny, Babs screams talent..."
Barbra Streisand made her film debut with "Funny Girl."
Color by Technicolor.
Herbert Ross directed the musical numbers.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 - French
Dolby Digital 5.0 - English
Additional Release Materials:
Clips/Highlights - Song Highlighs
Featurettes- 1. "Barbara in Movieland"
2. "This is Streisand"
Trailers
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Text/Photo Galleries:
Filmographies
In FUNNY GIRL, the highly fictionalized musical biopic, Barbara Streisand makes her film debut in a reprisal of her Broadway role as Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice. Brice, a poor Jewish girl from New York's Lower East Side, rose to fame and won audience's hearts everywhere with her comic antics and powerful singing. Unfortunately, she had far less success in her personal life, and the film focuses on her doomed romance with her first husband, gambler Nicky Arnstein.