Lost in Yonkers (1993)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Martha Coolidge

Writers (WGA):

Neil Simon (play)
Neil Simon (screenplay)

Release Date:

14 May 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York. |

Plot Keywords:

Grandmother | Yonkers New York | Aunt | 1940s | New York

Cast

Richard Dreyfuss	...	Louie Kurnitz
Mercedes Ruehl	...	Bella Kurnitz
Irene Worth	...	Grandma Kurnitz
Brad Stoll	...	Jay
Mike Damus	...	Arty
David Strathairn	...	Johnny
Robert Miranda	...	Hollywood Harry (as Robert Guy Miranda)
Jack Laufer	...	Eddie
Susan Merson	...	Gert
Illya Haase	...	Harry's Crony
Calvin Stillwell	...	Gas Station Attendant
Dick Hagerman	...	Truck Driver
Jesse Vincent	...	Danny
Howard Newstate	...	Kid in Store
Peter Gannon	...	Cop

Also Known As:

Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers

MPAA:

Rated PG for thematic elements and mild language.

Runtime:

114 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Norway:10 | Netherlands:MG6 | Australia:PG | USA:PG (certificate #32189) | Iceland:L | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Argentina:Atp | Chile:TE | Germany:6 | Peru:PT | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | UK:PG

Filming Locations:

Augusta, Kentucky, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Irene Worth won the 1991 Tony Award (New York City) for Supporting or Features Actress in a Drama for "Lost in Yonkers" and recreated her role in the movie.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: The movie is supposedly set in 1942 but some of the cars seen in the movie are post World War II models. For example, when Bella is hanging up laundry out in the yard.

Quotes:

Jay: [impersonating his Aunt Gert] Well, hello Jay. How are you? How's your father, and
[sucking in as he speaks]
Jay: *how's your little brother Arty?*

Movie Connections:

Features Now, Voyager (1942)

Soundtrack:

Now Voyager

Boring

Go to sleep instead.

What a slow moving movie that offers little to no entertainment.

Why did I bother to get this? I don't know...I struggled to watch this all the way through to the end.

I must have turned this on 7 or 8 times to continue watching it.

Even Richard Drefuss whom I find has great charisma fails to bring to light any interest in this plot.

It's slow and maybe if you were born in the 1940's this might be of interest, but I think this is so dramatically slow that it's bad just for being slow and not bad - if that makes any sense to you.

I'm glad that I had cable TV, otherwise I would have been really bored on a dismal Saturday and Sunday.