Over the Brooklyn Bridge

Mar 2, 1984

1h 48m

★ 4.8

A Comedy that spans 1 mile, 2 romances, 3 careers, 4 days, 5 relatives and $379,000.

Overview

A put-upon Jewish deli owner in Brooklyn dreams of getting out from underneath the thumb of his domineering father and his haughty fashion-model girlfriend by buying his own restaurant in midtown Manhattan.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Golan-Globus Productions

The Cannon Group

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Over the Brooklyn Bridge Trailers

Cast

Alby Sherman

Elliott Gould

Elizabeth Anderson

Margaux Hemingway

Uncle Benjamin

Sid Caesar

Cheryl

Carol Kane

Phil

Burt Young

Becky

Shelley Winters

Leonard Sherman

Jerry Lazarus

Ruth Sherman

Francine Beers

Seymour Sherman

Leo Postrel

Sarah Sherman

Rose Arrick

Herbert Sherman

Matt Fischel

Cynthia Sherman

Lyn Greene

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