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Crossing Delancey (1988) DVD Review
Crossing Delancey (1988) DVD Credits:
Crossing Delancey (1988) Directed by:
Joan Micklin Silver
Crossing Delancey (1988) Written by:
Susan Sandler
Crossing Delancey (1988) Cast:
Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Reizl Bozyk, Jeroen Krabbé, Sylvia Miles
Crossing Delancey (1988) Released by:
Not available at this time
Region:
1
Crossing Delancey (1988) DVD Release Date:
6th February 2007
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Crossing Delancey (1988) Synopsis:

Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help Isabelle's love-life along. Enter pickle-maker Sam who immediately takes to Isabelle. She however is irritated by the whole business, at least to start with.

Crossing Delancey (1988) DVD Review:

Amy Irving has the face of Michelle Pfeifer, but unfortunately she is given the hair of Carrot Top in this 1988 romantic comedy, Crossing Delancey. This is an inevitable side effect of the 80’s, and luckily it is one of very few in the film that is even noticeable. Otherwise there is a timeless quality about the romantic film in which a single woman faces some truths about romance in her life.

Irving is Isabelle Grossman, a happy and successful independent woman living in uptown Manhattan and working in publishing. Even though she has an occasional evening with a married man, she is satisfied without any serious relationships in her life. Izzy even has her eye on an attractive author, so when her grandmother, Bubbie (Reizl Bozyk), hires a matchmaker to find her a husband she is strongly opposed to the idea. She has even more reservations about the matchmaking when she is set up with a pickle vendor (Peter Riegert). After she meets him she still tries to tell herself she isn’t interested, setting him up with one of her friends, but before she knows it she is surprised by her feelings for the pickle seller.

The screenplay was written by Susan Sandler and based on a play by Sandler as well. It is a simple and sweet romance, nearly ruined by Izzy’s uptown thinking and an obnoxiously self involved author. Bozyk is fantastic as Izzy’s grandmother, a veteran stage actor and 74-years-old when the film was made. Riegert is especially charming as the pickle man, understated in his romancing as to still appear somewhat tough. The DVD includes a theatrical trailer as well.

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Crossing Delancey (1988) DVD review written by: Ryan Izay

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