Lost in Yonkers

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Love the Hard Way

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Love the Hard Way." Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and Charlotte Ayanna star in this drama about a thief who falls for a curious, beautiful young woman. As their intimacy grows, a slick cop (Pam Greer) is closing in.

Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group

Rating: PG

Running Time: 114 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Mercedes Ruehl, Irene Worth, Brad Stoll, Mike Damus, David Strathairn, Robert Guy Miranda, Jack Laufer, Susan Merson, Illya Haase

director: Martha Coolidge

Lost in Yonkers

Set in Yonkers, New York, in the summer of 1942, a story about two boys who live with their austere grandmother after their mother dies and their father is forced to become a travelling salesman to earn a living.

February 27, 2001

There's a sitcom phoniness to this Neil Simon tragicomedy about a slow-witted woman, Bella (Mercedes Ruehl), who lives lovelessly with her German immigrant mother, Grandma Kurnitz (Irene Worth), above the old tyrant's candy store in Yonkers, New York, circa 1942. Though Bella is "closed for repairs," according to her wisecracking nephews, Jay (Brad Stoll) and Arty (Mike Damus), she's awfully glib and knowing about her child-woman psyche for someone without therapy or access to Oprah and Phil.

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