In a time when the world of study belonged only to men, there lived a girl called Yentl... Directed by and starring screen legend Barbra Streisand, a young woman takes her late brother's name and enters a Jewish religious school in early 20th century Poland. There, she masquerades as a boy in order to pursue her thirst for knowledge and befriends fellow student Avigdor (Mandy Patinkin) in this "Funny, delicate, and intense" (The New Yorker) musical drama of deep humanity and love.