Over the Brooklyn Bridge

106 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBox office$837,914^[1]

Over the Brooklyn Bridge is a 1984 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by Menahem Golan, written by Arnold Somkin, and starring Elliott Gould. It had 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 "shiksa" (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.^[2]

See also

• List of films featuring diabetes

References

External links

• Over the Brooklyn Bridge at IMDb
• Over the Brooklyn Bridge at AllMovie
• Over the Brooklyn Bridge at the TCM Movie Database
• Over the Brooklyn Bridge at Rotten Tomatoes