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Product Description The Mirror has Two Faces Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand), who still lives with her mother (Lauren Bacall), is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin (Jeff Bridges) a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect. They're two people with almost nothing in common, but Fate in the form of a personal ad and a meddling sister brings them together. And without physical attraction to complicate matters, Rose and Greg become best friends and soon agree to an unconventional marriage builton intellectual passion instead of sexual heat. But when two people meet, marry, try to remain celibate and then fall in love they realize they are courting chaos. Directed by Streisand and co-starring Pierce Brosnan, George Segal, Mimi Rogers and Brenda Vaccaro, The Mirror has Two Faces explores our modern myths of sex and beauty with a brilliant combination of humor and poignancy that makes it "the year's best romantic comedy". (Jim Ferguson, Prevue Channel) Prince of Tides Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte star in the stunning screen adaptation of Pat Conroy's best-selling novel, the Prince of Tides. Nolte is Tom Wingo, a disillusioned Southern coach who must reveal his tortured childhood in order to help his suicidal sister. Streisand is Susan Lowenstein, the determined psychiatrist who battles Tom's resentment and rage in search of the truth. Their antagonism gradually gives way to love, as Tom and Susan find the secret that unlocks his sister's torment and the courage to change their own lives. Critically acclaimed as the best movie of the year, the Prince of Tides was hailed by Jeffrey Lyons as a blockbuster, must-see, can't-miss movie. Streisand also won rave reviews as director, assembling a superlative supporting cast that includes Blythe Danner, Kate Nelligan, Jeroen Krabb. The Way We Were Screen legends Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford make movie magic as the captivating star-crossed lovers, Hubbell Gardiner and Katie Morosky. Theirs is a classic love story sparked by the attraction of opposites, played out against the backdrop of American life during times of foreign war, domestic prosperity and McCarthy-era paranoia in Hollywood. Winner of two 1974 Academy Awards(r) (Best Song "The Way We Were" and Best Score), this special 25th Anniversary Edition of the The Way We Were has been digitally remastered so you can enjoy this romantic epic the way it was meant to be seen and heard. From the Back Cover Presenting "The Barbra Streisand Collection," featuring three of the two-time Academy Award winner's best romantic dramas and comedies. In "The Way We Were" (1973), Streisand and Robert Redford play a star-crossed couple whose marriage is put to the test during the turbulent years of the Hollywood blacklist. Her compelling performance earned Streisand a well-deserved Oscar nomination as Best Actress. In "The Prince of Tides" (1991), a psychiatrist (Streisand) falls in love with a suicidal patient's equally troubled brother (Nick Nolte). Expertly directed by Streisand herself, the film received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. And in "The Mirror Has Two Faces" (1996), Streisand not only stars as a plain Jane whose extreme makeover puts a little romance into her marriage to Jeff Bridges, bur directed and co-wrote the Oscar-nominated song, "I Finally Found Someone," as well.