Greg Larkin, played by Bridges and Rose Morgan, played by Streisand, both are professors at Columbia University in New York. They awkwardly begin a platonic relationship, he running from his debilitating obsession with women that he finds sexually attractive, and she quietly hopeless about ever finding a man who is interested in her at all.
There are some very funny moments with lots of New York City, Jewish humor that Streisand expertly weaves throughout the movie. Streisand also cleverly exposes some controversial women's issues like competition, jealousy, vanity, sexuality and women's role in relation to men.
Bridges is excellent in his role as the awkward and somewhat nerdy math professor, and Bacall does a fine job portraying the older Jewish mother with some true wisdom underneath her superficiality.
From the visually impaired point of view, the first fifteen minutes were quite difficult to follow, with lots of abrupt scene changes. Once things calmed down though, the movie became pretty enjoyable. The music was wonderful, a combination of classical, and opera, with lightness, strength and beautiful resonance. After the beginning the characters were easy to stay connected to and the flow of the movie was reasonable. There was some very fast dialogue at times with some quick, witty humor that you could miss if you didn't stay focused. There were a couple of scenes with mostly music. These would have been very tricky if I didn't have a sighted assistant with me. All in all I felt this picture was light, uplifting and definitely friendly for the visually impaired. I'll give it and 8 on our scale.
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