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MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Beeban Kidron
Genres: Comedy Drama, Romance
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Todd_Graff wrote the screenplay for this eccentric romantic comedy in the spirit of Moonstruck that exchanges pasta for matzo balls. The film takes place in Queens in 1969, where Pearl Berman (Shirley MacLaine) has just arrived back from the funeral of her husband. As her dysfunctional family kvetches in the living room, the dapper Joe Meledandri (Marcello_Mastroianni) arrives. It seems that Joe has admired Pearl from afar for a number of years, ever since he met her husband in a bar and persuaded him to return to his wife. He invites Pearl for coffee, provoking the wisecrack from her mother (Jessica_Tandy): "She got picked up at her own husband's funeral." As Pearl is wooed by Joe, she has to deal with her lonely, overweight daughter Bibby (Kathy_Bates) and her prettier daughter Norma (Marcia_Gay_Harden), who suffers from such a lack of self esteem that she assumes the personalities of Marilyn_Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, and Bonnie Parker. Paul Brenner, Rovi
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