YENTL (1983)

BARBRA STREISAND

Romance Drama Literary Classics

Cast

BARBRA STREISAND MANDY PATINKIN AMY IRVING NEHEMIAH PERSOFF STEVEN HILL ALLAN CORDUNER RUTH GORING DAVID DE KEYSER

Plot

A young East European Jewish girl determined to break Jewish law and study the aforesaid subject is forced to disguise herself as a man. The effect, not unsurprisingly, is a not very funny comedy of manners as she falls for a chauvinistic fellow student and his girl-friend falls for her.