Barbra Streisand, Bob Newhart, Byron Webster

When a psychiatrist (Yves Montand) begins talking to a young woman (Barbra Streisand), he realizes that she can recall a past life while under hypnosis. Although this brash New Yorker is thoroughly mo...( read more  read more... )dern and somewhat abrasive, he becomes fascinated by the 19th-century English woman who speaks through her. This oddball musical flicks back and forth between period flashbacks and modern times, which may be one reason it never builds up much power in either realm. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever failed at the box office in 1970, one of a number of glossy musicals that could not find an audience in the post-Easy Rider movie world. In fact, one of the film's out-of-place costars is Jack Nicholson, a symbol of the new movies that were making old-fashioned musicals a thing of the past. It didn't help that Paramount severely cut On a Clear Day before releasing it. For all that, the picture is enjoyable and--at the end--really quite touching. Director Vincente Minnelli (Meet Me in St. Louis), then near the close of a fabulous career, maintains his usual careful eye for color and design, and keeps Streisand relatively restrained--for Streisand, that is. --Robert Horton

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G, 129 min.

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli

Release Date: June 17, 1970

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DVD Release Date: February 22, 2005

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  • August 20, 2007
    A really weird kind of musical...but I liked it. One of her few good movies, I htink.
  • November 21, 2009
    This film was the perfect example of a fascinating concept completely blitzed by horrible direction. I have heard that Vincente Minnelli went senile in his later years and this sloppy joe movie seemingly backs this up. Yves Montond and Barbra's alter ego have NO chemistry, whi...( read more)ch is easily blamed on the fact that they never once share the screen not to mention the musical numbers are bland. Everytime the narrative starts to drag (which is often) Minnelli throws in a tacky gimmick to zest things up. Still, the concept was interesting enough to warrant a remake.
  • August 13, 2009
    Funny, poignant, snarky, great music -- everything you want.
  • July 21, 2009
    Which is funny because when I take off my glasses, I can't read this.
  • June 28, 2009
    A past lives story where a psychologist falls in love with a past life of barbra's.
  • May 26, 2009
    Me encanto! apesar ke los "musicales" no son lo mio! y tampoco soy fan de Barbra
  • February 24, 2009
    Beautiful production values.
  • February 23, 2009
    This movie was overall fairly lame. The plot was silly, the acting was overdone... heck, the WRITING was overdone. I have to wonder how much of the bad acting was the fault of the actors, versus the fault of the dialogue... but anyway. The last fifteen minutes of the film somehow...( read more) took characters I didn't care about and a plot I was giggling at, and wrapped them up in a thoroughly satisfactory way. Those last few minutes clearly belonged to some other, better movie.

    The songs are not really even worth mentioning in this. Alan Jay Lerner has done much, much, much better. As has Streisand.

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