Prince Of Tides, The (DVD)

For her acclaimed second feature as a director, Barbra Streisand crafted a sumptuous, emotionally wrenching adaptation of Pat Conroys best-selling novelwhich she also produced and starred in. Summoned to New York after his sister attempts suicide, Tom Wingo (Nick Nolte) must serve as her memory, reckoning with the traumas of their southern childhood so that her psychiatrist, Dr. Susan Lowenstein (Streisand), can help her recover. But Toms sessions with Lowenstein will plunge him into the depths of his own long-repressed painand reawaken the possibility of love within him. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including best picture and best actor for Noltes soulful performance, The Prince of Tides is a life-affirming tale of healing and renewal from a triple-threat filmmaker with a keen and humane insight into her characters sorrows, joys, and yearnings.