10 Most Cringe-Worthy Vanity Projects In Movie History

3. The Mirror Has Two Faces

If the mirror really does have two faces you can guarantee both of them reflect the soft focused, delicately lit ageing face of Barbra Streisand - few movies in the history of cinema driven by vanity have lavished so much endless attention on their leading lady. The obsessive manner in which the camera lingers over the various parts of Streisand in The Mirror Has Two Faces becomes much more understandable when you realise that Streisand directed it herself.

It's a textbook example of a leading lady vanity project, too, centering as it does on the story of an ugly duckling who learns how to be beautiful once again. Only a woman so thoroughly obsessed with proving to the world that she's still "beautiful" could make such a movie, and Barbra Streisand certainly had form in this respect even before The Mirror Has Two Faces was released in 1996. Fortunately she's only appeared in three films since - two of which have earned her much deserved Razzie Awards nominations.