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Brighton Beach Memoirs

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Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)

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Average Rating:5.7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Based loosely on playwright/screenwriter Neil Simon's own life, "Brighton Beach Memoirs" focuses on aspiring writer Eugene Jerome and his large Jewish family in their overcrowded Brooklyn home in... Based loosely on playwright/screenwriter Neil Simon's own life, "Brighton Beach Memoirs" focuses on aspiring writer Eugene Jerome and his large Jewish family in their overcrowded Brooklyn home in 1937. His parents work and worry and meddle into everyone else's lives -- and they can always find enough to keep them in a tizzy: Eugene, as far as everyone is concerned, has recently become a bit too fascinated by the fairer sex, with much of his attention fixated on his dishy cousin, a would-be Broadway dancer. His older brother works at a blue-collar job and has run up a big gambling debt. And his widowed aunt (much to Mrs. Jerome's consternation) is considering a romance with the Irishman across the street. [More]

Starring: Blythe Danner, Bob Dishy, Judith Ivey, Jonathan Silverman

Starring: Blythe Danner, Bob Dishy, Judith Ivey, Jonathan Silverman, Lisa Waltz, Stacey Glick, Brian Drillinger, Fyvush Finkel, Kathleen Doyle, Alan Weeks, Marilyn Cooper, Jason Alexander, Christian Baskous, Brian Evers, Ed Deacy, Wanda Bimson, Richard Bright, James Handy, Bette Henritze, Steven Hill, David Margulies

Director: Gene Saks

Director: Gene Saks
Screenwriter: Neil Simon
Story: Neil Simon
Producer: Ray Stark
Composer: Michael Small

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Jordan Hiller

The general measure of audience enjoyment for a film based on Simon has everything to do with one's tolerance for the playwright.

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Scott Weinberg

A warm & witty memoir from Neil Simon.

comment Comment | Apr., 02 2005 09:20 PM

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