OK. If you accept this movie for what it is, it's actually pretty entertaining. It's a Cinderella story for middle-aged folks. I won't recap the film. That's not my job. I'm here only to give you my impressions on the watchability and impact of this movie. If you love Barbra Streisand (and I do) and you love Jeff Bridges (and I do), you will love this romantic comedy. Both are at their funny, witty, comedic best in this film. Mimi Rogers is gorgeous as Bab's sister. (Oddly, Netflix has her mistakenly identified as Fran Drescher on its website.) Lauren Bacall is stunningly beautiful - still. Overall, the film has a lot of heart. What I love about Streisand is that she knows her weaknesses and her strengths, and plays both up to much effect in this film, which she directed and, I believe, co-wrote. This is a quintessential "chick flick," the kind you enjoy on a raining Sunday night with a big bowl of popcorn. If you are in just the right mood for a film that shamelessly exploits your feelings about romance, this one is it. Enjoy.

Partly Based on the 1958 French film Le Miroir à Deux Faces written by André Cayatte and Gérard Oury, which focused on a homely woman who becomes a beauty, which creates problems in her marriage. 'The Mirror Has Two Faces' is simple, sweet and a majorly entertaining film directed by the Legendary Barbra Streisand.'The Mirror Has Two Faces' works big time, because it has a story to tell... a story that has it's share of WOW moments, no wonder this film was a box office super-hit during it's release way back 1996. With a running time of 126 minutes, here's a film we'll not forget for at least the next 2 decades! Streisand's direction is perfect, so is her signing and her acting. An all-rounder! Jeff Bridges pitches in an Incredible performance. The Academy Award-Winning Actor never disappoints! Lauren Bacall is fantastic as Streisand's old and groovy mom. Pierce Brosnan is very okay, mainly because he gets nothing to do but stock his wife everywhere! On the whole, 'The Mirror Has Two Faces' is a classic... Two Thumbs Up!

This mediocre romance was Barbra Streisand's announcement to the world that middle-aged people can fall in love too.O.k., fair enough, I don't begrudge her the sentiment, but the film she made to express it is all soft. It exists mostly as a vanity project for Streisand, who goes from frump to glamour puss over the course of its two-hour running time. Jeff Bridges is always winning and likable, and so he is here as Streisand's love interest. His presence is almost enough to make up for the tired and generic theme song.The film is probably most famous for NOT bringing Lauren Bacall a much-anticipated Oscar, which went instead to Juliette Binoche in one of the biggest upsets in recent memory.Grade: C

Where do I even f****** begin with this piece of trash?First of all, this formulaic garbage for lonely middle-aged spinsters features two of the most notorious witches (you can also replace the "w" with a "b") in the history of Hollywood, two arrogant, unlikable ogres: Streisand and Bacall. Streisand, the ugliest major actress for so many decades now (although Aniston, Barrymore, and Tea Leoni are hot on her heels) has made yet another self-indulgent piece of crap. The movie isn't about love in general, it's specifically about Barbra's undying, limitless and infinite love toward herself - though like most narcissists, that is probably largely based on a deeply repressed sense of low self-worth. (Aren't I a great from-the-distance psycho-analyst?) In this dumb movie she is supposed to be younger than Mimi Rogers, which is so extremely pathetic that it isn't even funny any more. In reality Mimi is FOURTEEN YEARS younger than the old the-way-we-were Marxist hag. In fact, Rogers looks 20 years younger, simply because ugly women like Streisand always look automatically older than they are. And anyway, even though Mimi is nothing to shout about (apart from the phenomenal breasts) she is a goddess next to Streisand, hence if they're to play sisters, I demand an explanation in the plot as to what DNA screw-up happened when their parents were making Barbra, having previously (ha-ha) made a normal-looking human female.Equally pathetic/funny/ridiculous is the fact that Barbra gets to smooch with Pierce Brosnan and Jeff Bridges, two guys who would in reality sooner vomit on her ugly nose than kiss it. Pierce, the most effeminate Bond ever, looks like a school-girl next to this Loch-Ness monster. The two of them kissing and flirting was like something perverse straight out of a manga comic or something. I was half-expecting her to grow tentacles out of her breasts and choke Pierce with them. Of course that would be a dumb horror film, but that would be much better than a cheesy romantic comedy that is just as predictable as one would expect. It was predictable that it would be predictable.Bridges is 7 years younger than our singing ghoul, and Brosnan is a whole 10 years her junior. What a strange way for Barbedwira to want to appeal to audiences: by showing yourself to be a deluded egomaniac! There is an unintentionally funny scene in which Bridges lists why he is so attracted to Barbra: he says something like "I love her eyes... her mouth... " and at this point he made a pause as if he were thinking about the nose! Of course, he doesn't mention the nose, as I'm sure that anyone on the set of any BS movie would get torn to shreds if they so much as even mention the "n" word. Bridges, whom I don't consider to be great actor (merely solid), should have gotten an Oscar for this role, and both him and Brosnan deserved no less than a Purple Heart each for the bravery they showed in the face of such... a face.It's pretty ironic that this overlong snooze-fest is based on a 1958 French film, because in French movies we usually have a 50 year-old man ogling and eventually molesting a 14 year-old girl (the French viewers apparently love that pedophilic stuff).The movie was made in 1996... Hmmm... Where did Barbedwira get the confidence, the CHEEK, to make this kind of embarrassing, self-adoring crap? Could it be due to her alleged brief romance with tennis star Andre Agassi, which was only a few years earlier around 1992? Did this romance give her the courage she needed to make "The Mirror Has Two Faces"? Of course, it's very easy for us to laugh at Barbra in hindsight; after all, she didn't know back then that Andre is attracted to big-nosed uglies! (Hence his marriage with the hideous Steffi Graf.)