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Title:Movie Reviews and Discussion
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Created:Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1249
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264.0. "Lost In Yonkers" by 32902::FOSTER () Tue Jul 20 1993 14:50

    I've looked through DIR twice and cannot find a review of
    LIY.
    
    Can anyone provide a synopsis of this movie?
    
    Thanks,
    Kim
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264.1Sorry I missed itNASZKO::DISMUKEWANTED: New Personal NameTue Jul 20 1993 18:184
    Anyone know where it might still be playing in the So NH area?
    
    -sandy
264.2Synopsis R Us8269::BARRIANOchoke me in the shallow water...Tue Jul 20 1993 18:5921
    
>    Can anyone provide a synopsis of this movie?
    
   Kim,

    Mercedes Ruehl plays a thirty something spinster who is mentally slow.
She lives with and cares for her domineering mother. Two of her nephews come to
stay with her and her mother after their mother dies, and their father has to
get a travelling salesmen job. Mercedes' characters other brother (played by
Richard Dreyfus) a gambler, comes to hide out from some people he owes money to.

 Movies takes place in the 1940's and is typical Neil Simon fare, which is
good or bad depending on how you feel about Neil Simon :-)

I'd check around the $1 Cinema or at the Video Store, I don't think it's still
playing at regular theatres.

Regards
Barry
264.3Lost in Y.51219::PIJPSTRA_DTue Aug 03 1993 07:388
    I saw Lost in Yonkers as an (off) Broadway play in New York two years
    ago when I visited for the first (and up till now the only time) the
    US.
    
    I enjoyed both the story and the acting. Never seen anything like it,
    certainly not in Holland.
    
    Donald.
264.44268::DELBALSOI (spade) my (dog face)Tue Sep 13 1994 01:1117
re: .2

Well, Uncle Louie isn't exactly a, er, "gambler". :^)

I just caught this this past weekend when Cinemax was doing two days free
as a promotional thing. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but -
    1) I saw it done on stage locally recently
and 2) I like Neil Simon a lot.

Personally, I thought the entire cast was great.

The interesting thing about the movie was that the liberties they took above
the play (more characters/scenes/etc.) didn't add much to the basic story,
although I suppose it did make it a more palatable movie. As Simon was involved
in the screenplay, I guess he knew what he was doing.

-Jack