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| Directed by | Martha Coolidge |
| Written by | Neil Simon |
| Starring | Richard Dreyfuss Mercedes Ruehl Irene Worth Brad Stoll Mike Damus David Strathairn |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
| Cinematography | Johnny E. Jensen A. Troy Thomas |
| Editing by | Steven Cohen |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | USA 14 May 1993 Argentina 21 October 1993 Australia 18 November 1993 Spain 14 January 1994 Sweden 29 April 1994 UK 17 June 1994 France 20 July 1994 |
| Running time | 114 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $9,285,189 |
Lost in Yonkers is a 1993 film film adaptation of the Neil Simon play of the same name, directed by Martha Coolidge. It stars Irene Worth, Mercedes Ruehl, and Richard Dreyfuss.
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A coming of age tale, Lost in Yonkers focuses on brothers Arty and Jay, who are left in the care of their Grandma Kurnitz and Aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York by their desperate father Eddie, who needs to work as a traveling salesman to pay off debts incurred following his wife's death.
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.
Missing much of the sentimentality of the plays comprising Simon's earlier Eugene Trilogy, Lost in Yonkers climaxes with a dramatic confrontation between bitter mother and lonely daughter that creates a permanent fissure in this highly dysfunctional family.
After eleven previews, the Broadway production, directed by Gene Saks, opened on February 21, 1991 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it ran for 780 performances. The original cast included Irene Worth, Mercedes Ruehl, and Kevin Spacey.
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