Crossing Delancey


Crossing Delancey is a romantic comedy film starring Amy Irving and Peter Riegert that was released in 1988. It is directed by Joan Micklin Silver and was based on a play by Susan Sandler, who also wrote the screenplay. Amy Irving was nominated for a Golden Globe for the movie, for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture ComedyMusical.

Isabelle pays frequent visits to her Bubbie grandmother, Ida played by Yiddish theatre star Reizl Bozyk in her only film role, who lives in the lower east side of Manhattan. Anxious for her granddaughter to settle down, Ida turns to the local marriage broker Sylvia Miles. Although shocked and annoyed, Isabelle allows the matchmaker to introduce her to Sam Posner Peter Riegert, who owns the pickle shop.At first Isabelle is not interested in Sam, believing that he is too workingclass for her. Instead, she sets her sights on Anton and the New York intelligentsia. But she also feels guilty for how rude she was to Sam, so she tries to make it up to him by setting him up with her girlfriend Marilyn. In the process, she learns that he did not hire a matchmaker out of desperation and in fact has admired Isabelle from afar for several years. She is deeply touched and begins to like him, but it seems Sam has given up on her and starts dating Marilyn. ........

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