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Wikipedia article




'Over the Brooklyn Bridge' is a 1984 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by Menahem Golan, written by Anrold Somkin, and starring Elliott Gould. It has the working title of 'My Darling Shiksa', referring to a Shiksa, a woman outside of the Jewish faith. The film depicts a Jewish man being forced to break up with his gentile girlfriend.

Plot



Alby Sherman is a Jewish man whose father died when he was young. He and his mother run a luncheonette in Brooklyn, but Alby has negotiated the purchase of an upscale restaurant in Manhattan, a project he cannot finance on his own. He asks his wealthy Uncle Benjamin to lend him the money. His uncle imposes only one requirement: he will lend Alby the money, but only if he leaves his "shikse" (gentile) girlfriend.

Cast



*Elliott Gould as Alby Sherman

*Margaux Hemingway as Elizabeth Anderson

*Sid Caesar as Uncle Benjamin

*Burt Young as Phil

*Shelley Winters as Becky Sherman

*Carol Kane as Cheryl

*Sarah Michelle Gellar as Phil's Daughter (uncredited)

*Robert Gossett as Eddie

Production



The film was budgeted at $4 million and scheduled for six weeks. Golan completed it in five weeks, $500,000 under budget.Andrew Yule, 'Hollywood a Go-Go: An Account of the Cannon Phenomenon', Sphere Books, 1987, p. 33,

See also



*List of films featuring diabetes

References




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