Such a frustrating disappointment

just watch it!

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Barbra Streisand plays a high-priced call girl, who is arrested for manslaughter. The crux of the plot is that her parents hire an expensive attorney to avoid a trial (and the accompanying public exposure of her profession) by having her declared mentally unfit to stand trial. Streisand's character doesn't help herself much by behaving oddly, and occasionally violently. The film is chock full of recognizable actors, who all turn in good performances. I'm not always a fan of Richard Dreyfuss, but he does shine in this one. Also, Leslie Nielsen, who was beginning his transformation into a comedic actor around this time, was very creepy and menacing as the "victim" of the homicide. It was, to me, reminiscent of his role in Creepshow. Overall, the film is pretty good, with good acting, good photography, and unobtrusive direction.

l watched this picture for the first time in early 1991 on television and more twice after that,now a first time on DVD this could be a good movie if Streisand didn't spoiler the movie with a bad behavior and every time leading on trial and disrespecting everyone on the picture..that's impossible to happen on courtroom...mainly the subject is wrong...in a court didn't have defense attorney and prosecutor in the same side,besides that the story is good,telling a high class prostitute accused by a murder in self defense take on trial your defense attorney declare insanity to escape of prison so your past is discovered she was molested by stepfather since 9 years old and you mom knew everything...by the way the casting are fantastic in special way Richard Dreyfuss as always!!

Nuts is an adaptation of a stage play. Aaron Levinsky (Richard Dreyfuss) a public defendant is forced to take on a defendant being tried for competency.The District Attorney (Robert Webber) sees this as a simple case of mental incompetency. The accused in question is playful, spirited and hard to handle. Claudia Draper (Barbra Streisand) is the high class call girl who is determined to prove that she is not nuts. Her parents are bemused but as we see from flashbacks there is a terrible family secret and Levinsky will need to discredit (Eli Wallach) the psychiatrist who is convinced that Draper is nuts.Its hard to escape the film's stage-bound origins as a lot of the film consists of interior shots. In some ways this a courtroom play. Dreyfuss is actually enjoying himself as defendant lawyer Levinsky trying to get a handle of his rich girl client and then seeing his face when he twigs what the real tragedy might be.Streisand on the other hand never convinces me that she is a high class hooker who has been roughing it on the seamy side of life. Its not the film's fault that the murder victim turns out to be Leslie Nielsen (soon to be in the hit spoof Naked Gun films) as his scenes that we see in flashback go a little bit too near to Frank Drebin and I am sure no want wanted too see Nielsen in just his black underpants.As a courtroom thriller in a busy New York court setting the film is enjoyable but dare I suggest that Miss Streisand was miscast.

A weak film by the underrated Martin Ritt, "Nuts" stars Barbra Streisand as a prostitute who is arrested on a manslaughter charge. Richard Dreyfuss plays the lawyer appointed to defend her. The film trades in familiar courtroom clichés, until it climaxes with a series of "shocking revelations".Ritt would be responsible for a series of masterpieces, most notably "Hud", "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold", "The Molly Maguires" and "Sounder". Like most directors who did their best work in the early 1970s and 60s, his subsequent films would become increasingly tainted by the demands of New Hollywood. Of his later films, "Norma Rae", "Stanley and Iris" and "The Front" are generally agreed to be his best. Still, sugary and light, they're a far cry from his earlier, far more mature works. "Nuts" is emblematic of late-Ritt.6.9/10 – Worth one viewing.