Over the Brooklyn Bridge
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Directed by | Menahem Golan |
Produced by | Menahem Golan Yoram Globus |
Written by | Arnold Somkin |
Music by | Pino Donaggio |
Cinematography | Adam Greenberg |
Edited by | Mark Goldblatt |
Production
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City Films
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Distributed by | MGM/UA |
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Running time
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106 minutes |
Country | United States |
Box office | $837,914[1] |
Over the Brooklyn Bridge is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Menahem Golan.
Plot
Alby Sherman is a Jewish man whose father died when he was young. He and his mother run a candy store in Brooklyn, but Alby dreams of opening his own restaurant in Manhattan, a project which will be very expensive. Finding the perfect location, a restaurant whose owner is moving to another location, he asks his wealthy Uncle Benjamin to lend him the money. His uncle imposes an odious requirement of him: Alby will receive the investment money he needs but only if he leaves his blond "shikse" Catholic girlfriend and gets married to a "nice Jewish girl".
Cast
- Elliott Gould as Alby Sherman
- Margaux Hemingway as Elizabeth Anderson
- Sid Caesar as Uncle Benjamin
- Burt Young as Phil
- Shelley Winters as Becky Sherman
- Carol Kane as Cheryl
- Sarah Michelle Gellar as Phil's daughter
Production
The film was budgeted at $4million and scheduled for six weeks. Golan completed it in five weeks, $500,000 under budget.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=overthebrooklynbridge.htm
- ↑ Andrew Yule, Hollywood a Go-Go: The True Story of the Cannon Film Empire, Sphere Books, 1987 p33
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Over the Brooklyn Bridge at IMDb
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- 1984 films
- American films
- English-language films
- Films set in New York City
- Films set in Brooklyn
- Films about Jews and Judaism
- Golan-Globus films
- 1980s comedy films
- Films directed by Menahem Golan
- Film scores by Pino Donaggio
- American comedy films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
- United Artists films
- 1980s comedy film stubs