I am a Barbra Streisand fan. I'm not a humongous fan - I can't gush about her songs and films, because I haven't seen or heard them all. However, I do tend to enjoy her performances in film. My sister gave me What's Up, Doc? on DVD for Christmas. Last night I watched Nuts, and I enjoyed it immensely. The plot is thus: Barbra plays an upper-class call girl who is on trial for her sanity. Richard Dreyfuss plays her lawyer, James Whitmore plays the judge determining her state of mind, and in a very disturbing turn, Karl Malden (one of my faves!) plays her abusive stepfather. If the judge decides she is insane, she gets placed in a psychiatric facility. If she is sane, she gets to go on trial for manslaughter and fight for her innocence.

I did not expect to get into this movie as much as I did (it's a lawyer movie, for one thing). However, the acting was just AMAZING and it sucked me into the story. It was worth staying up late for.
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