Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
Up the Sandbox has generally received mixed reviews.
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Up the Sandbox was released in 1972 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 25 reviews, giving Up the Sandbox (1972) an average rating of 55%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 67%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 40%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Up the Sandbox than critics were.
With a score of 55%, Up the Sandbox is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1972, which stands at 58%.
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