A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Amy Irving | ... | Isabelle Grossman | |
| Peter Riegert | ... | Sam Posner | |
| Reizl Bozyk | ... | Bubbie Kantor | |
| Jeroen Krabbé | ... | Anton Maes | |
| Sylvia Miles | ... | Hannah Mandelbaum | |
| George Martin | ... | Lionel | |
| John Bedford Lloyd | ... | Nick | |
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Claudia Silver | ... | Cecilia Monk |
| David Hyde Pierce | ... | Mark (as David Pierce) | |
| Rosemary Harris | ... | Pauline Swift | |
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Suzzy Roche | ... | Marilyn Cohen |
| Amy Wright | ... | Ricki | |
| Faye Grant | ... | Candyce | |
| Deborah Offner | ... | Karen | |
| Kathleen Wilhoite | ... | Myla Bondy | |
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Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help Isabelle's love-life along. Enter pickle-maker Sam who immediately takes to Isabelle. She however is irritated by the whole business, at least to start with. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
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screenplay adapted by author | new york city | judaism | matchmaking | based on play |Taglines:
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16 September 1988 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$4,000,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
$16,262,415Company Credits
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Anton Maes: [People are arriving at an event at a book store. There are sounds of employees greeting them, checking them in, serving champagne. Izzy is collecting empty plastic cups and napkins. She sees a woman put a book from the shelf in her bag, and deftly removes and replaces it. Anton is watching her from across the nook and motions her over. Their eyes lock as she approaches] So, you won't be out of a job.
[He plunks down his cup on her tray]
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Reizl Bozyk's only English-language film. She was a leading actress in Yiddish theater for many years. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Anton Maes: [People are arriving at an event at a book store. There are sounds of employees greeting them, checking them in, serving champagne. Izzy is collecting empty plastic cups and napkins. She sees a woman put a book from the shelf in her bag, and deftly removes and replaces it. Anton is watching her from across the nook and motions her over. Their eyes lock as she approaches] So, you won't be out of a job.
[He plunks down his cup on her tray]
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This is my favorite movie of all time with an unbelievable cast of great character actors. I remember a New York reviewer at the time calling Amy Irving's performance "lukewarm" and I could not disagree more. Irving's performance and character epitomize the thirty-something single New York working woman trying to move up in the world. Irving's character is completely enraptured by the experience of being the book manager of a very prestigious uptown neighborhood book store and falls for the good-looking, European writer who is completely enraptured with himself! Riegert is the nice "pickleman" who any girl knows would make a great husband but the fireworks just don't go off for the girl. Any woman can definitely relate to the dilemma of being attracted to the charming, good-looking rogue but when you get right down to it, it is the everyday "picklemen" who stay true and truly make the world go round.
And I must say that this film captures the city better than any movie I have yet to see complete with crazy singing woman in crowded narrow hot dog joint, midage man struggling to play handball in local park, elderly women learning self-defense at community Y. Classic New York stuff! I could go on and on but do note far out performances by Sylvia Miles as the tacky matchmaker and Rosemary Harris, the great English actress, in a cameo near the end.