Barbra Streisand is Reworking Ending of THE WAY WE WERE For Film's Re-Release

A previous version of this story reported that Barbra Streisand is reportedly re-cutting the end of the Funny Girl movie because "it doesn't make sense." According to a report from The Wrap, Streisand's husband, James Brolin, stated that his wife was changing the film's ending, including re-editing and re-working the color. It was later revealed that Brolin mis-spoke, and he was actually referring to the film The Way We Were, which is set to get a re-release later this year.

"She’s colorizing it and adding the scenes back in that — because it didn’t make sense, that movie,” Brolin stated during an interview on Bill Maher’s "Club Random" podcast. "In the end, it didn’t make sense why they split, and she’s putting it all back together for the 50th anniversary."

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release a 4K Blu-ray version of Sydney Pollack's The Way We Were (1973), starring Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles, and Patrick O'Neal. The release is scheduled to arrive  on October 17.

About 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 1973 Academy Awards® (Best Song "The Way We Were" and Best Score).

In close collaboration with Barbra Streisand and in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Sydney Pollack's classic film, Columbia Pictures presents a new extended version of THE WAY WE WERE — restoring two important scenes where the love story and the political story come together — alongside the original theatrical version.

The disc will feature both the original 118-minute Theatrical Version and an all-new 123-minute Extended Version of the film. Both versions are remastered in 4K resolution from the original camera negative.

The disc also includes Director's Commentary (Theatrical Version Only), and a Making-Of Documentary "Looking Back".

About Barbra Streisand

Streisand is currently preparing to release her memoir, My Name Is Barbra, which will be released on November 7. She also has two new albums on the way, one being a 40th anniversary deluxe edition of the Yentl soundtrack and the other, "Evergreens," which celebrates six decades of her releases with Columbia Records.

Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in the history of popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl, she became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major motion picture.