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Crossing Delancey

  • 1988
  • PG
  • 1h 37m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
4.7K
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Crossing Delancey (1988)
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ComedyRomance

A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.

  • Director
    • Joan Micklin Silver
  • Writer
    • Susan Sandler
  • Stars
    • Amy Irving
    • Peter Riegert
    • Reizl Bozyk
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.9/10
    4.7K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Joan Micklin Silver
    • Writer
      • Susan Sandler
    • Stars
      • Amy Irving
      • Peter Riegert
      • Reizl Bozyk
    • 61User reviews
    • 28Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 nominations

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    Peter Riegert in Crossing Delancey (1988)
    Amy Irving and Peter Riegert in Crossing Delancey (1988)
    Amy Irving and Peter Riegert in Crossing Delancey (1988)
    Amy Irving, Deborah Offner, and Suzzy Roche in Crossing Delancey (1988)
    Amy Irving and Jeroen Krabbé in Crossing Delancey (1988)
    Reizl Bozyk and Peter Riegert in Crossing Delancey (1988)
    Amy Irving and Peter Riegert in Crossing Delancey (1988)
    Amy Irving and Peter Riegert in Crossing Delancey (1988)
    Amy Irving and Peter Riegert in Crossing Delancey (1988)
    Amy Irving in Crossing Delancey (1988)
    Amy Irving and Reizl Bozyk in Crossing Delancey (1988)
    Amy Irving and Reizl Bozyk in Crossing Delancey (1988)

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    Amy Irving
    Amy Irving
    • Isabelle Grossman
    Peter Riegert
    Peter Riegert
    • Sam Posner
    Reizl Bozyk
    Reizl Bozyk
    • Bubbie Kantor
    Jeroen Krabbé
    Jeroen Krabbé
    • Anton Maes
    Sylvia Miles
    Sylvia Miles
    • Hannah Mandelbaum
    George Martin
    George Martin
    • Lionel
    John Bedford Lloyd
    John Bedford Lloyd
    • Nick
    Claudia Silver
    • Cecilia Monk
    David Hyde Pierce
    David Hyde Pierce
    • Mark
    • (as David Pierce)
    Rosemary Harris
    Rosemary Harris
    • Pauline Swift
    Suzzy Roche
    • Marilyn Cohen
    Amy Wright
    Amy Wright
    • Ricki
    Faye Grant
    Faye Grant
    • Candyce
    Deborah Offner
    Deborah Offner
    • Karen
    Kathleen Wilhoite
    Kathleen Wilhoite
    • Myla Bondy
    Moishe Rosenfeld
    • Rabbi
    Paula Laurence
    • Diva
    Christine Campbell
    • Woman in Cab
    • Director
      • Joan Micklin Silver
    • Writer
      • Susan Sandler
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The hot dog place that Izzy goes to on her birthday (where lady walks in and sings "Some Enchanted Evening") is Papaya King located at 179 E 86th Street, New York, NY 10028.
    • Goofs
      The synopsis of Anton's new book, visible when he signs an autograph, is clearly a summary of the story of this film (or the original play), mentioning Isabelle, her job, her grandmother, etc. If that was indeed the story of that book, Isabelle would have had some stern comments for Anton when she read it.
    • Quotes

      Marilyn Cohen: And I'm sitting there, and my *face* is starting to hurt. And I'm thinking, Christ, I got 45 minutes to show this guy how loving, smart, supportive, funny, independent, and sexy I am. And all I can really think about is how I'd rather be sitting home watching the baseball game.

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Moon Over Parador/Eight Men Out/Running on Empty/The Thin Blue Line/Crossing Delancey (1988)
    • Soundtracks
      Come Softly to Me
      (Opening title)

      Written by Gretchen Christopher, Barbara Ellis and Gary Troxel

      Performed by The Roches

    User reviews61

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    10/10
    Izzy, Sam, and Bubbe
    There are a set of films from the 1980s and 1990s that are very well done comedies about dating or finding one's true love. The best known one is MOONSTRUCK, but others are WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING and this one, CROSSING DELANCEY. Like MOONSTRUCK, CROSSING DELANCEY deals with an ethnic group. Cher's movie was a valentine about Italian Americans. CROSSING DELANCEY is a similar valentine about Jewish Americans in Manhattan.

    Izzy (Amy Irving, in her best film part) is pretty happy. She is an independent woman who works in a famous private book shop, gets to be in contact with the leading writers of the day (she tells of speaking to Isaac Bashevits Singer at one point), and has a nice rent controlled apartment near Central Park. But her beloved grandmother Bubbe (Reizl Bozyk) is upset that Izzy is still single. She approaches the local, Lower East Side, matchmaker (Sylvia Miles) to find a groom for her granddaughter. Izzy is appalled at this, but she does come to dinner to meet the young man (Sam - Peter Riegert). He's a businessman (he and his brother run a pickle selling business on Delancey Street). Sam is a smart and nice guy, but Izzy is stand-offish because of her set of modern values.

    The title refers to Izzy's assimilated views versus the standards of her grandmother and Sam. She does not want to be associated with old style lifestyles that represent an earlier era. But Sam tells her a story about a friend of his who was forced to buy a new hat when he lost his old cap "Crossing Delancey", and his life was changed was changed as a result (he got engaged in two days). Sam reinforces the story by sending Izzy a new hat (as though to suggest trying something different).

    Izzy's state of mind is also confused because she has a sexual interest in a popular novelist named Anton Maas (Jerome Krabbe). Maas is certainly a gifted novelist, with a ready line of colorful patter that causes certain types of women (like Izzy) to swoon. But he is a little self-centered for all that, though Izzy does not notice this for awhile. But she does feel, after getting Sam's gift, that she should do something for him - she tries to set him up with a girlfriend. But she suddenly discovers he is a nice guy, and she begins to wonder if she has made a serious error.

    This description of the film is inadequate, especially at it can barely touch the performances of Ms Bozyk (her only film lead role - after a lifetime in Yiddish theater she got this, and proved she should have had many more film performances to her credit), and Sarah Miles as the loud, overbearing, matchmaker Mrs. Hannah Mandlebaum. David Hyde Pierce appears as one of Izzy's fellow employees at the bookstore - an early role for the future Niles Crane. And Rosemary Harris appears as a "Marianne Moore" poet at a soirée, who makes the mistake of trying to patronize Krabbe (in his most sympathetic in the film - he returns the comment with interest). The movie has everything, including a version of a comedy chase (involving a taxicab with an unbelievably bad driver) and moments of hamish philosophy by Bubbe over a bottle of cherry herring. Altogether one perfect romantic comedy.
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    • theowinthrop
    • Nov 24, 2005

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    • Release date
      • September 16, 1988 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
      • Hebrew
      • Yiddish
    • Also known as
      • Sarah und Sam
    • Filming locations
      • Washington Street, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA(Exterior)
    • Production company
      • Warner Bros.
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $4,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $16,262,415
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $46,711
      • Aug 28, 1988
    • Gross worldwide
      • $16,262,415
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 37 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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