Reizl Bozyk Movies
- 1993
Nehemiah Persoff guest stars as elderly Jewish tailor David Steinmetz, who willingly confesses "I killed the woman I love" when police find the body of his invalid wife in their apartment. Steinmetz insists that his wife begged him to help her commit suicide, but the facts do not bear this out. And then Stone (Michael Moriarty) unearths evidence that Steinmetz, who claims to have been a Holocaust survivor, may actually have been a Nazi collaborator. The climax of the story brings Stone into open conflict with Steinmetz's fiercely protective daughter (Diane Venora). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Can an independent, contemporary woman find happiness with a guy who sells pickles? Isabelle Grossman (Amy Irving) is an attractive, intelligent Jewish woman in her early 30s. She has a good job and a nice apartment on the Upper West Side, and she values her independence; she often visits her grandmother Bubbie (Reiz Bozyk), who lives on the Lower East Side and wants Isabelle to meet a nice Jewish man and settle down. Bubbie goes so far as to obtain the services of Hannah Mandelbaum (Sylvia Miles), a matchmaker who finds the "perfect" man for Isabelle: a pickle salesman named Sam Posner (Peter Riegert). Isabelle thinks Sam is a nice enough guy, but she has a hard time imagining herself spending her life with the pickle man, and she isn't sure if she wants to pursue the relationship. However, Sam is taken with Isabelle and goes out of his way to change her mind. Crossing Delancy was directed by Joan Micklin Silver, whose breakthrough film Hester Street also examined Jewish culture on the Lower East Side, albeit from the vantage point of the 1890s. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Amy Irving, Reizl Bozyk, (more)
