Barbra Streisand's A Star Is Born Streams Free All Month

Barbra Streisand's A Star Is Born Streams Free All Month

Barbra Streisand's musical version of A Star Is Born, a 1976 remake of the Judy Garland musical which was later adapted as a Lady Gaga-Bradley Cooper film, will be streaming for free all month.

The musical follows Esther Hoffman, a young singer who meets and falls in love with John Norman Howard, an established rock and roll star, only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline due to drug misuse and excessive drinking.

Here's how to stream Barbra Streisand in A Star Is Born now:

 


 

While the Streisand adaptation was not a hit with the critics, it became a huge box-office success, managing to gross more than $80 million against a $6 million budget. The film received four Academy Award nominations and won one - Best Original Song for its love theme "Evergreen". It later won 5 Golden Globe Awards including Best Motion Picture and Best Actress in a Motion Picture for its star.

Pluto TV will stream Streisand's A Star Is Born all month long for free, in the U.S. and Canada only. A direct link to the stream has been added to our list of free streaming musicals and plays.

A Star Is Born is written and directed by Frank Pierson (together with John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion), and stars Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey, Paul Mazursky, and Joanne Linville.

 


In his updated review for The Hollywood Reporter in 2018, Jean Hoelscher said: "Jon Peters’ first production achieves a high level of quality. Barbra Streisand’s fantastic singing voice shows to the best advantage her incredible talent. The movie falls short of greatness, but it compares more than favorably not only with the usual concert film (good as a few of them are) but also with the current love stories on film."