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Crossing Delancey is a 1988 American romantic comedy film adapted by Susan Sandler from her play of the same name, and directed by Joan Micklin Silver. [2] It stars Amy Irving and Peter Riegert . The film also features performances from Reizl Bozyk , David Hyde-Pierce , Sylvia Miles and Rosemary Harris .
A cover version performed by The Roches, from their 1985 album Another World, is repeated several times on the soundtrack of the 1988 film Crossing Delancey. [14] [15] Buck Dharma of Blue Öyster Cult covered the song on his 1982 solo album, Flat Out. [16]
Silver is known for the film Crossing Delancey (1988), a romantic comedy starring Amy Irving about a bookstore clerk with career aspirations in the literary world, who is concerned about concealing her "Lower East Side roots". [1] This project too ran into roadblocks: studio executives told Silver that Crossing Delancey was too "ethnic
Reizl Bozyk (born 13 May 1914 – 1 October 1993), also known as Rose Bozyk and Róża Bożyk, was a Polish-born American actress of the Yiddish theatre.Her claim to mainstream fame was her sole film role, playing the interfering grandmother of Amy Irving in Joan Micklin Silver's film Crossing Delancey (1988).
SusanSandlerHEADSHOT. Susan Sandler is an American writer and professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. [1] She has numerous writing credits but is probably best known for her play Crossing Delancey, which she also adapted into a film with the same name starring Amy Irving and directed by Joan Micklin Silver.
Peter Riegert (/ r iː ɡ ɜːr t / REE-gert;) (born April 11, 1947) is an American actor.He is best known for his roles as Donald "Boon" Schoenstein in Animal House (1978), oil company executive "Mac" MacIntyre in Local Hero (1983), pickle store owner Sam Posner in Crossing Delancey (1988) and Lt. Mitch Kellaway in The Mask (1994).
In 1988, she received an Obie Award for her Off-Broadway performance in a production of The Road to Mecca, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the comedy Crossing Delancey (1988). Irving went on to appear in the original Broadway production of Broken Glass (1994) and the revival of Three Sisters (1997).
Peter Riegert and Amy Irving dance to the song in Crossing Delancey (1988). Featured in season 4 episode 7 of The Golden Girls, "Sophia's Wedding (Part 2) (1988) As the "theme" of When Harry Met Sally (1989), it finished as #60 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. In the 1992 film A League of Their Own by Megan ...