Lost in Yonkers

Lost in Yonkers is a 1993 film film adaptation of the Neil Simon play of the same name, directed by Martha Coolidge. It stars Brad Stoll, with Irene Worth, Mercedes Ruehl, and Richard Dreyfuss. A coming of age tale, Lost in Yonkers focuses on Jay, who is left in the care of his Grandma Kurnitz and Aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York by his desperate father Eddie, who needs to work as a traveling salesman to pay off debts incurred following his wife's death. Jay is also made to look after his younger brother. Grandma is a severe, frightfully intimidating eastern European Jewish immigrant who... terrified her children as they were growing up, damaging each of them to varying degrees. Bella is a sweet but mentally slow and highly excitable woman who longs to marry an usher at the local movie house named Johnny so she can escape the oppressive household and create a life and family of her own. Her brother Louie is a small-time, tough-talking hoodlum who is on the lam, while her sister Gert suffers from a breathing problem with causes more psychological than physical.
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