Up the Sandbox

Up the Sandbox

What's Barbra up to? Up the marriage trap. Up the revolution. Up the Zambesi River. And up to something surprisingly wonderful.

197297 min5.9 / 10

A surreal, energetic comedy-drama about a restless young mother's escape into increasingly absurd fantasies as she rebels against domestic confinement and marital neglect.

Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.

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