Over the Brooklyn Bridge

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.

Over the Brooklyn Bridge
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMenahem Golan
Written byArnold Somkin
Produced byMenahem Golan
Yoram Globus
StarringElliott Gould
Margaux Hemingway
Sid Caeser
Burt Young
Shelley Winters
CinematographyAdam Greenberg
Edited byMark Goldblatt
Music byPino Donaggio
Production
company
City Films
Distributed byCannon Films
MGM/UA
Release date
  • March 2, 1984 (1984-03-02)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$837,914[1]

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

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

References
  1. "Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1983)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. Andrew Yule, Hollywood a Go-Go: An Account of the Cannon Phenomenon, Sphere Books, 1987, p. 33, ISBN 9780722193891


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