A put-upon Jewish deli owner in Brooklyn dreams of getting out from underneath the thumb of his domineering father and his haughty fashion-model girlfriend by buying his own restaurant in midtown Manhattan.
Elliott Gould Margaux Hemingway Sid Caesar Carol Kane Burt Young Shelley Winters Jerry Lazarus Francine Beers Leo Postrel Rose Arrick Matt Fischel Lynnie Greene Robert Gossett Karen Shallo Amy Ryder Sal Richards Leib Lensky Lou David Tom McDermott Zvee Scooler Mort Freeman Mary Gutzi Jean Elliott Aki Aleong Kim Chan Claude Vincent Manuel E. Santiago Jackie James Linda Kerns Show All…
Oltre il ponte di Brooklyn, Na brooklińskim moście, El pont de Brooklyn, Al otro lado de Brooklyn
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Love is Burt Young narrating an erotic fantasy between a pudgy Elliott Gould and a gorgeous blonde racquetball player.
“You get married, and then for your whole life, you can’t dream anymore about the girl you’re finally going to get married to.”
Schlubby Brooklyn delicatessen owner Elliott Gould aspires to better things in life. He’s dating gentile fashion designer Margaux Hemingway, and he’s trying to scrounge up the down payment on a high-class restaurant in Manhattan. His wealthy uncle (Sid Caesar) is glad to see him finally get some drive, but he’s not on board with every aspect of Gould’s effort to assimilate and make good. Caesar offers Gould the entire $60k he needs to close the deal, but only if Gould breaks up with Hemingway and settles down with “nice” Jewish girl Carol Kane. To his credit, Gould…
Directed by Menahem Golam just before his infamous production company The Cannon Group started to become synonymous with glorious crap, OVER THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE was part of a still sincere attempt to make prestige films outside of the schlock genre. Unfortunately this is so thriftily slapped together that it's difficult to take seriously. It's got a great cast and a perfectly adequate premise as far as romcoms go, but it can't decide if it's a lightweight comedy or an intense family drama. If it could pick a lane it might do just fine as either, and it does have some moments that show potential, but it's fairly easy to understand why this film has been completely forgotten as if it…
carol kane is so goddamn attractive in this movie i literally don’t care about the rest of the plot
This is by no means a great film, and...maybe not even a consistently good one, but it might very well be the most semitic NYC film ever made, and its take on the Jewish-man-love-a-shiksa-but-his-family-doesn't-approve is probably addressed in greater depth than any other film with a similar theme.
I adore James Grey's TWO LOVERS, and in many ways this is a similar film, but, even as (ostensibly) a comedy, it delves even deeper into the struggle of culture/duty vs matters of the heart that that film does.
An uncomfortably long, extended dinner scene towards the film's end calls to mind the recent ARMAGEDDON TIME, and though the dialogue here is rather on-the-nose, it's written by someone who truly understands the…
This is the third movie I've seen where Elliott Gould discusses the New York Knicks: California Split (1974), Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984), Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Usually when my girls all leave for a big dance weekend I jam all my sappy dramas, so i avoid risk of someone walking in (hearing the dooshiest adult contemp sax score) then being all judgy and calling me a wank.
Hemi & Gould woofed it, the rest of the cast was waaay better, Burt Young being my fav. Kane should get trauma pay for putting 1983 Gould gut hair in her mouth.
Go watch Getting Straight or The Silent Partner for some underappreciated good Gould if you even think about watching this doo doo.
I wouldn't watch this again if you gave me 3 free tacos.
Thus starts my free-house Friday eve.
Tempted to call this a forgotten NYC classic, a couple notches below Angelo My Love. It’s certainly in the conversation of most authentically Jewish films, helmed by Israeli action director Menahem Golan and filled to the brim with laugh-out-loud Yiddish insults. Great all-city locations, stolen street photography, and uncle-yelling-at-nephew-simultaneously-with-Puerto Rican-cab-driver-on-Park-Avenue that I’d be shocked if Josh Safdie was unaware of.
Sid Caesar (a Jew from Yonkers!) is particularly good alongside Elliot Gould and the duo have a climax scene that’s genuinely moving. Margaux Hemingway doesn’t get a ton to do but looks great in coke bottle classes directing runway shows and fits the part of Philadelphia shiksa. Pino Donaggio’s music does the movie no justice though, running ramshackle over a…
142/2020
A very Jewish romantic drama comedy. Menahem Golan directed this and I gottasay it wasn’t as bad as I anticipated. The music helps set the mood in this film. Stick with it, solid cast. Sid Caesar really shines. I watched for free on Pluto TV. Worth a watch
Junesploitation Day 8: Cannon!
Had such a fun time with this movie. You can't throw a stone without hitting a marvelous performance from a character actor, seriously! The humor may be a little dated but I chuckled more than once. The scene where Burt Young's Phil tries to help his drunk diabetic friend, Alby (Elliott Gould) take a piss, really takes the piss. The movie even takes a sweet turn some point near the end that I think is totally earned and kinda made a dude cry.
By far one of the favorite things I watched so far this Junesploitation was a scene that has a lovelorn Alby in a phone booth trying to call his girlfriend while a (perhaps…
Has all the charm of pilot from 1976 that wasn't picked up.
Nice to see Gould and Kane but this has so little going on visually it could be a radio play
